Armenian edit

Etymology edit

A nursery word, which may have existed already in Proto-Indo-European; compare Sanskrit अत्ता (attā, mother, older sister) and Proto-Indo-European *átta (father).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ատտա (atta)

  1. (dialectal) mother, mummy

Declension edit

References edit

  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “atta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 124
  • Malxaseancʿ, Stepʿan (1944–1945) “ատտա”, in Hayerēn bacʿatrakan baṙaran [Armenian Explanatory Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: State Publishing House