Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *attô

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *attô Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_attô

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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages Robert D. Fulk John Benjamins Publishing Company 2018 Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 5) Alwin Kloekhorst Brill 2008 The Proto-Germanic n-Stems: A Study in Diachronic Morphophonology Guus Kroonen Rodopi 2011a Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11) Guus Kroonen Brill 2013 Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 9) Ranko Matasović Brill 2009a From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition) Don Ringe Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7) Michiel de Vaan Brill 2008 Cognacy and computational cladistics: Issues in determining lexical cognacy for Indo-European cladistic research Matthew Scarborough Matilde Serangeli Thomas Olander Dispersals and diversification Leiden & Boston Brill 179–208 2020 atta father 𒀜𒋫𒀸 father ἄττα father; respectful address to an older man attyo- father; foster father *atta- father, dad *h₂et-o- daddy

noun masculine an-stem father, dad a male ancestor; forefather From an expressive nursery word Proto-Indo-European *atta-, integrated into Proto-Germanic as a masculine n-stem Kroonen 2011a: 80 Kroonen 2013: 39. It is conventionally reconstructed as PIE *átta Ringe 2017: 20, 89; de Vaan 2008: 60 instead posits *h₂et-o-. Compare Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸, Ancient Greek ἄττα, Latin atta, and Proto-Celtic attyo- de Vaan 2008: 60 Kloekhorst 2008: 225–26, s.v. atta- Matasović 2009a: 46. Direct inheritance is uncertain: PIE *tt is exceptional, and comparable nursery words arise independently in unrelated languages; Scarborough 2020: 198, therefore, considers independent formations more likely. Fulk 2018: 114 alternatively regards the Germanic word as probably borrowed from Greek or Latin.