# atta
## English
### Etymology 1

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#### Contraction

atta
* that's the; that's a

##### Usage notes

Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

##### Alternative forms

* thatta

##### Derived terms

* attaboy, atta boy
* attadog, atta dog
* attagal, attagirl, atta girl

### Etymology 2

From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).

#### Noun

atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)
* (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
** 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 7:Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.
** 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books:The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger.

### Anagrams

* Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

## Akkadian
### Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta m (“thou”). Cognate with Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta) and Biblical Hebrew אַתָּה (ʔattɔ́).

### Pronunciation

* (Old Babylonian) IPA: /ˈat.ta/

### Pronoun

atta
* you, thou (second-person masculine singular personal pronoun, nominative case)
    𒀀𒈾𒆪 𒅇 𒀜𒋫 [anāku u atta] ― a-na-ku u₃ at-ta ― you and I (literally, “I and you”)

#### Alternative forms

* anta (Eblaite)

#### See also

    1. This table gives Old Babylonian inflection.
    2. Used to express the Accusative and Genitive case.
    3. Used exclusively on adjectives to form the predicative construction.
    4. Used on nouns and prepositions.
    5. Used on verbs. Always follows the Ventive.
    6. Still unattested form.

## Chickasaw
### Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw atta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /at.ta/

### Verb

atta (singular subject)
* (active voice, intransitive) to be born
* (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to live in
    Oklahommaꞌ ishattatok. ― You have lived in Oklahoma.

#### Inflection

| Verbs beginning with a vowel. | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
| 1st-person (I, we) | attali atta-li | N/A | N/A |
| 2nd-person (you, you all) | ishatta ish-atta | N/A | N/A |
| 3rd-person (he, she, it, they) | atta | N/A | N/A |

#### Derived terms

* aatta
* ahánta
* chokmat atta
* ibaa-atta
* imatta
* nannishtatta
* ánta
* âtta

#### Related terms

* ashwa (dual subject)
* *asha, áyyaꞌsha (tri-plural)

## Choctaw
### Verb

atta
* to live

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

atta
* locative singular of at

## Gothic
### Romanization

atta
* Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈat.ta/
* Rhymes: -atta
* Hyphenation: àt‧ta

### Adjective

atta
* feminine singular of atto

### Anagrams

* tata

## Japanese
### Romanization

atta
* Rōmaji transcription of あった

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]

### Noun

atta m (genitive attae); first declension
* father (term of respect for an old man)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Sicilian: tatà
* Neapolitan: (archaic) tatà, (Apulia) attène
    Tarantino: [Term?] (/⁠attánə⁠/, “dad”)

### References

* “atta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "atta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “atta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* aththa, atha, eththa

### Etymology

Proto-West Germanic *attō (“father”).

### Noun

atta m
* father

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: ate, aatj, taatje, tääte
* West Frisian: heit

#### References

* ↑ von Richthofen, Karl (1840) “atha, atta, ettha”, in Altfriesisches Wörterbuch [Old Frisian Dictionary] (in German), Dieterich Göttingen, page 613

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* ata, āta

### Etymology

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

### Numeral

ātta
* eight

#### Descendants

* Swedish: åtta

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* Alternative scripts𑀅𑀢𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)अत्त (Devanagari script)অত্ত (Bengali script)අත‍්ත (Sinhalese script)အတ္တ or ဢတ္တ or ဢတ်တ (Burmese script)อตฺต or อัตตะ (Thai script)ᩋᨲ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)ອຕ຺ຕ or ອັຕຕະ (Lao script)អត្ត (Khmer script)𑄃𑄖𑄴𑄖 (Chakma script)

### Noun

atta
* vocative singular of attan

## Sicilian
### Noun

atta f
* Alternative form of gatta (Eye dialect)

## Turkish
### Noun

atta
* singular locative of at

## Yagara
### Pronoun

atta
* I

### References

* State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.