tatã

Forms

tatã m (plural tãtãnj)^[1]

• Plural tãtãnj.^[1][2]
• Other spellings: tatu, tata and tati in Wiktionary;^[1] TÁTĂ and TÁTU in Papahagi's dictionary;^[3][4] tată, definite tata or tatălă, plural tatăńiĭ, in Mihăileanu's Romanian-based spelling;^[5] τάτᾶ (tátă), plural tâtani, in Nikolaidis, who records the short form τα in Vlacholivado;^[6] tatä, Meyer's reading of the word in Kavalliotis's list.^[7]
• Regional forms: t'atā, and t'ate or t'ati as children's address to their father, in the village of Turia;^[8] tátă, plural tătắńi, in the dialect of Metsovo;^[9] 'tată in Ohrid–Struga.^[10]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin tata (“dad, daddy”);^[3][11][1] Papahagi derives the plural from the Latin plural of the same word.^[3] Nikolaidis, too, derives the plural from medieval Latin, though he takes Latin tata itself from Ancient Greek τάτα (táta) and ἄττα (átta, “father”).^[6] The word is common to the four Eastern Romance languages: Romanian tată, Megleno-Romanian tată and Istro-Romanian tǫtę.^[12][13] Ciorănescu rejects Miklosich's derivation of the Romanian word from Slavic tata: the likeness comes from the shared expressive source.^[12] Pușcariu lists Albanian tatë, Vegliote tuota, dialectal Italian tata and Spanish tata.^[14][15] In Latin, tata was the child's word for a father or grandfather;^[16] the OLD compares Sanskrit तात (tāta) and Greek τάτα, and Wiktionary traces it to Proto-Italic *tata, a nursery word imitating a child's speech.^[16][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Kavalliotis's Greek–Aromanian–Albanian word list of 1770, where tatä (Meyer's reading) translates Modern Greek πατέρας (patéras, “father”).^[7]

Semantic evolution

The Latin child's word became the ordinary word for “father” in Aromanian.^[16][17][3] Cunia records the phrases tatã bun “one's own father”, tatã nearcu “stepfather”, tatã mari “grandfather” and Tatã Mari “God”;^[2] Mihăileanu has tatălŭ mare “God”.^[5] The plural also means “parents, forefathers”: tatăńiĭ a noştri “our forefathers”.^[5]

Timeline

• 1770 – tatä “father” in Kavalliotis's word list.^[7]
• 1901 – tată in Mihăileanu's dictionary.^[5]
• 1909 – Nikolaidis derives it from Latin tata.^[6]
• 1925 – Pascu derives it from Latin tata.^[11]

Meanings

Noun

1. A father.^{[17][3][1][7]}
2. Dad, papa (in address).^[3][8]
3. (plural) Parents, forefathers.^[5]

Related words

• Romanian tată

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net), p. 997
3. ^ a b c d e f Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1021
4. ^ Papahagi, Tache (1963), Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 1022
5. ^ a b c d e Mihăileanu, Ștefan (1901), Dicționar macedo-român, București, p. 498
6. ^ a b c Νικολαΐδης, Κωνσταντίνος (1909), Ετυμολογικόν λεξικόν της κουτσοβλαχικής γλώσσης, Αθήνα, p. 525
7. ^ a b c d Meyer, Gustav (1895), Albanesische Studien IV: Das griechisch-südrumänisch-albanesische Wörterverzeichnis des Kavalliotis, Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, phil.-hist. Classe 132, p. 94
8. ^ a b Бара, Мариана; Каль, Теде; Соболев, Андрей Н. (2005), Южноарумынский говор села Турия (Малый диалектологический атлас балканских языков, серия монографий 1), p. 356
9. ^ Δασούλας, Φώτης (2013), Το βλαχικό ιδίωμα του Μετσόβου, 2nd ed.
10. ^ Марковиќ, Марјан (2007), Ароманскиот и македонскиот говор од охридско-струшкиот регион (во балкански контекст), Скопје, p. 53
11. ^ a b Pascu, Giorge (1925), Dictionnaire étymologique macédoroumain, 2 vols. (I: Les éléments latins et romans; II: Les éléments grecs, turcs, slaves, albanais, germaniques, magyars, néologismes, créations immédiates, obscurs), Iași: Cultura Națională, p. 1, 168
12. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001)
13. ^ Capidan, Theodor (1935), Meglenoromânii III: Dicționar meglenoromân, București: Academia Română, p. 291
14. ^ Pușcariu, Sextil (1905), Etymologisches Wörterbuch der rumänischen Sprache I: Lateinisches Element, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. 158
15. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
16. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
17. ^ a b Cunia, Tiberius (2008), Dictsiunar a limbãljei armãneascã, Editsii Timpurarã (after T. Papahagi, Ș. Mihăileanu and I. Dalametra; online at dixionline.net)