Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A father, a male parent. · Used to address one's father; often capitalized. · Used to address an older adult male.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo be a father to; to parent. · To act like a dad.
From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”). * Perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”), all imitative. In Welsh, when subject to soft mutation (which occurs in vocative contexts, among others), tad becomes dad. * Perhaps imitative of a child's first uttered syllables da, da. * Possibly from a metathetic variation of a hypothetical Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô ("father, forefather"; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), Middle High German tate (“father, dad”) (whence German Tate (“dad”), Bavarian tatte (“dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”)), Icelandic táta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mention*daddeenm
- Cognate mentiondeitefy · dad, daddy
- Cognate mentionDedeswg · Godfather
- Cognate mentiontadbr
- Cognate mention*tadcel-bry-pro
- Cognate mentiondatasga
- Cognate mentionдя́дяru
- Cognate mentionде́душкаru
- Cognate mention*attōgmw-pro
- Cognate mention*attôgem-pro
- Cognate mentionatefrr
- Cognate mentiontategmh · father, dad
- Cognate mentionTatede · dad
- Cognate mentiontattebar · dad
- Cognate mentiontattacim · dad
- Cognate mentiontátais · dad
- Cognate mention*áttaine-pro · father
- Cognate mentionततsa · father
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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