Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/attô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta. Cognate with Latin atta (“father”). The word was probably originally only a vocative, but was extended with a full paradigm in most descendants, including Germanic where it was reformed as a masculine n-stem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑt.tɔːː/

Noun

*attô m[1]

  1. father, dad
    Synonym: *fadēr
  2. forefather

Inflection

Declension of *attô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *attô *attaniz
vocative *attô *attaniz
accusative *attanų *attanunz
genitive *attiniz *attanǫ̂
dative *attini *attammaz
instrumental *attinē *attammiz

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *attō
    • Old Frisian: atta, aththa, atha, eththa
      • North Frisian: ate, aatj, taatje, tääte
      • West Frisian: heit
    • Old Saxon: *atto, *etto
      • >? Middle Low German: ette (“local elder, hereditary male judge”)
    • Old Dutch: *atto, *etto
    • Old High German: atto
      • Middle High German: atte
        • Alemannic German: Ätti, Ätte
          Italian Walser: attu, àttu, attò
          • ⇒ Alemannic German: Großätti, Großatt
        • Bavarian: Ätt
        • ⇒? Cimbrian: tatta
  • >? Old Norse: Atti
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta)

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*attan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 39
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