Ätti

See also: atti, átti, and åtti

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German atte, from Old High German atto, from Proto-Germanic *attô, from Proto-Indo-European *átta. Cognate with Latin atta (“father”). The word was probably originally only a vocative, but was extended with a full paradigm in most descendants, including Germanic where it was reformed as a masculine n-stem.

Pronunciation

(Swiss) IPA^(key): /ˈætti/

Noun

Ätti m (plural Ätti)

(Switzerland) father, dad
- 1834, Johann Peter Hebel, “Die Vergänglichkeit”, in J. P. Hebels sämmtliche Werke, page 177:
  Der Bueb seit zum Aetti: / Fast allmol, Aetti, wenn mer’s Röttler Schloß / so vor de Auge stoht, se denki dra, / öbs üsem Hus echt au e mol so goht.
(Switzerland) grandfather
(Switzerland) forefather

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