Tatu
Finnish
editEtymology
editDiminutive of Taavetti (“David”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editTatu
- a male given name
Declension
editInflection 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
editGerman
editEtymology
editUltimately from Old Tupi tatu; see English tatou. Displaced by Armadill and then by Gürteltier, which see.[1]
Noun
editTatu 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.
Swahili
editEtymology
editFrom tatu (“number three”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editTatu
- a unisex given name (given to the third born)
Categories:
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑtu
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑtu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- German terms derived from Old Tupi
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German terms with obsolete senses
- de:Armadillos
- Swahili terms with audio links
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili proper nouns
- Swahili given names
- Swahili male given names
- Swahili female given names
- Swahili unisex given names