atá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ata"

Hamer-Banna

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔatá/, [ʔatá̤]

Verb

atá

1. (intransitive) to burn

References

• Petrollino, Sara (2016) A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic language of Ethiopia‎^[3], Leiden University, page 298

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

Mutated forms of atá

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
atá	n-atá	hatá	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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

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

• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎^[4] (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