atá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ata"

Irish

Etymology 1

Inflected form of bí; from Old Irish at·tá.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /əˈt̪ˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /əˈt̪ˠaː/

Verb

atá

1. present indicative independent affirmative progressive relative of bí

   Labhróidh mé leis an mbuachaill atá ag dul abhaile.

   I will speak to the boy who is going home.

   • 2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 1:

     Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.

     [original: Up in the lighthouse, under twinkling stars, Bronach sings the Song of the Sea to her five-year-old son, Ben.]

Etymology 2

Inflected form of at (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /əˈt̪ˠɑː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈat̪ˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈat̪ˠa/

Verb

atá

1. second-person singular past subjunctive of at

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
atá	n-atá	hatá	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Verb

a·tá

1. Alternative spelling of at·tá

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈta/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧tá

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ata, from Proto-Tupian *atʲa.

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní tata and Paraguayan Guaraní tata.

Noun

atá (IIa class pluriform, absolute tatá, R1 ratá, R2 satá) (possessable)

1. fire

Related terms

• anhanga ratá
• ataar
• ataara
• atagûasu
• atapy
• atatinga
• iraîtytataendy
• kaûĩ ratá
• mba'etatá
• seîxutatá
• tata'u
• tata'yba
• tataendy
• tataeíra
• tatapeîuaba
• tatapu'i
• tatapynha
• Tatapytera
• tatarema
• tatau'uba
• tataupaba
• tatauru
• tataîyba
• tataûrana
• tataûyramirĩ
• tataûyraûasu
• îasytatá

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: atá

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ata.

Noun

atá (possessable)

1. walk; hike

Derived terms

• atapûana

Further reading

• Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos‎^[3] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “atá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: the classical indigenous language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 67, column 2

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈta/ [aˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧tá

Verb

atá

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of atar