Tatu
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive of Taavetti (“David”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Tatu
- a male given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Tatu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Tatu | Tatut | ||
genitive | Tatun | Tatujen | ||
partitive | Tatua | Tatuja | ||
illative | Tatuun | Tatuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Tatu | Tatut | ||
accusative | nom. | Tatu | Tatut | |
gen. | Tatun | |||
genitive | Tatun | Tatujen | ||
partitive | Tatua | Tatuja | ||
inessive | Tatussa | Tatuissa | ||
elative | Tatusta | Tatuista | ||
illative | Tatuun | Tatuihin | ||
adessive | Tatulla | Tatuilla | ||
ablative | Tatulta | Tatuilta | ||
allative | Tatulle | Tatuille | ||
essive | Tatuna | Tatuina | ||
translative | Tatuksi | Tatuiksi | ||
abessive | Tatutta | Tatuitta | ||
instructive | — | Tatuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- Tatu is the 149th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,181 male individuals (and as a middle name to 510 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Old Tupi tatu; see English tatou. Displaced by Armadill and then by Gürteltier, which see.[1]
Noun edit
Tatu m
- (obsolete) armadillo
- Synonyms: Gürteltier; (archaic) Armadill
References edit
- ^ Philip Motley Palmer, Neuweltwörter im Deutschen (1939), page 25: Armadill Das Gürteltier; vom gleichbed. span. armadillo entlehnt. Das einheimische Wort Tatu (Tupi tatu — dasypus, Martius) ist für das 16. und 17. Jh. häufig belegt (schon bei Staden 1557 S. 145), wurde aber durch Armadill und später [...] durch Gürteltier zurückgedrängt.