atë

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ate"

Albanian

Alternative forms

• atën (Gheg)
• āt (NW Gheg)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *ata, from Proto-Indo-European *átta, whence also Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta), Latin atta, Proto-Slavic *otьcь, and similar Lallwörter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈatə/, [äːt(ɜ)]

Noun

atë m (plural etër, definite ati, definite plural etërit)

1. father

Declension

Declension of atë

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	atë	etër	ati	etërit
accusative			atin
dative	eti	etërve	atit	etërvet
ablative		etërish

Synonyms

• apë
• babë (“dad, daddy”), baba (“the dad(ddy)”), babai (“id”)
• tatë (“father, dad”), tata (“the father, the dad”)

Derived terms

• atëror
• atdhe
• atësi

Related terms

• (Religion) Ati ynë (“Lord's Prayer”)

Etymology 2

See ato.

Pronoun

atë

1. it, that, him, her (accusative)

Further reading

• Jungg, G. (1895) “aat”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 1
• “atë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2] (in Albanian), 1980
• Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “atë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 11
• Newmark, L. (1999) “atë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[3]
• “atë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006