köken: From Proto-Turkic *āka. Doublet of аға (ağa). Compare Uzbek aka. Alternatively, shortened from атеке (ateke) / әтеке (äteke), a diminutive form of ата (ata), compare әпке (äpke).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese pay < *pade, child-speech forms of padre, from Latin patrem, the accusative of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of padre. Compare mãe (“mother”), which underwent a similar phonetic reduction from its root (Latin mater), and, in addition, was nasalized, perhaps because it was more frequently used than this word. Cognate with…
aile: pãe, pai de família, pai de santo, pai dos burros, pai natal, pai nosso, paizão, paizinho, tal pai, tal filho
köken: From Ottoman Turkish بابا (baba) + ending -ς (-s) or onomatopoeic child word. The ancient hypocoristic for πατήρ (patḗr, “father”) was πάππας (páppas). Unrelated is the medieval βάβω (bábō) / μπάμπω (mpámpō) ("grandma, old woman"), from Slavic *babo.
köken: Originally a compound of 御(お) (o-, “honorific prefix”) + 父(とと) (toto, “father”) + 様(さま) (-sama, “honorific suffix”). /ototosama/ → /otottsan/ → /otossan/ The /otossan/ → /otoosan/ progression was artificial; regular Japanese sound changes generally would not allow this shift. The /otoosan/ form first appears in the early Meiji period in educational materials mandated by the 文部省 (Monbushō,…
köken: From dialectal variant of Swedish fader (“father”). Compare also Finnish äijä (“old man”) and Finnish muija (“old woman, hag; wife, girlfriend; young woman, chick”).
köken: Inherited from Latin tata, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tatás. Compare Aromanian tatã, Dalmatian tuota (“father”), Neapolitan tata (“father”); cf. also Albanian tatë. It was possibly reinforced by the similar South Slavic term (e.g. Serbo-Croatian tata (“dad”)).
aile: taică, tătic, tataie
Acesta e tatăl meu.
Contrar credinței populare, copiii au nevoie de tați.
dad, daddy, a term used by children for their father
çekim: çoğul tatae · tamlayan tatae
köken: From Proto-Italic *tata, from Proto-Indo-European *tata-, ultimately onomatopoeic, mimicking baby talk. Compare the similar atta, and also Cornish tat, tas, Breton tad and Breton tata, Ancient Greek τατᾶ (tatâ), τέττα (tétta), Bulgarian та́тко (tátko), Sanskrit तात (tāta), Kamkata-viri tót, tó, Tregami tát, Waigali tati.