atá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ata"

Irish

Etymology 1

Inflected form of bí; from Old Irish at·tá.

Pronunciation

Verb

atá

  1. present indicative independent affirmative progressive relative of bí
    Labharfaidh mé leis an buachaill atá ag dul abhaile.
    I will speak to the boy who is going home.

Etymology 2

Inflected form of at (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

Verb

atá

  1. second-person singular past subjunctive of at

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
atá n-atá hatá t-atá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Verb

atá

  1. Alternative form of at·tá

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaˈta/, /taˈta/

Noun

atá

  1. fire

Usage notes

  • The stem atá could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form tatá was used whenever the noun was not possessed.

References

Spanish

Verb

atá

  1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of atar.
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