tatta

See also: Tatta and tättä

English

Etymology

Hindi

Noun

tatta (plural tattas)

  1. (India) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is allowed to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tatta in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Cimbrian

Etymology

Perhaps metathesized from Old High German atto, from Proto-Germanic *attô. Compare English dad, North Frisian tääte.

Noun

tatta m

  1. dad, daddy

References
  • “tatta” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo Ptata.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.taː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: tat‧ta

Noun

tatta m (plural tatta's, diminutive tattaatje n)

  1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) An autochthonous Dutch person.
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