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atter

See also: ater, Atter, āter, ǡter, ätter, åter, and ätter-

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Etymology edit

From Middle English atter, ater, from Old English āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *ait(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyd-, *h₂oyd- (“tumor, abscess”).

Cognate with Scots attir (“corrupt matter, pus”), Scots atter, etter (“poison, venom”), Shetlandic eter (“poison; bitter cold”), Saterland Frisian Atter (“pus”), Dutch etter (“pus”), German Eiter (“poison, pus”), Danish edder, ædder (“venom”), Swedish etter (“poison, venom, virulence”), Norwegian eiter (“venom”), Icelandic eitur (“poison”).

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Noun edit

atter (plural atters)

  1. (archaic or UK dialectal) Poison, venom, especially of a venomous animal.
  2. (archaic or UK dialectal) Pus, corrupt or morbid matter from a sore or wound.
  3. (UK dialectal) Epithelium produced on the tongue.
  4. (UK dialectal) A scab; a dry sore.

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Verb edit

atter (third-person singular simple present atters, present participle attering, simple past and past participle attered)

  1. (UK dialectal) To venom; sting.
  2. (UK dialectal) To discharge, as a sore; clot; curdle; cake.

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Danish edit

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From Old Norse aptr.

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Adverb edit

atter

  1. again

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Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse aptr.

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atter

  1. again

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

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From Old Norse aptr.

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Adverb edit

atter

  1. aft (in the back of a boat)
  2. (chiefly poetic) again
    • 1860, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Vaaren:
      […] Heggen og Tre, som der Blomar er paa, eg atter saag bløma.
      […] once again I saw the bird cherry and the flowering trees in bloom.

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