Tatu
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Diminutive of Taavetti (“David”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Tatu
- a male given name
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Tatu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Tatu | Tatut | ||
genitive | Tatun | Tatujen | ||
partitive | Tatua | Tatuja | ||
illative | Tatuun | Tatuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Tatu | Tatut | ||
accusative | nom. | Tatu | Tatut | |
gen. | Tatun | |||
genitive | Tatun | Tatujen | ||
partitive | Tatua | Tatuja | ||
inessive | Tatussa | Tatuissa | ||
elative | Tatusta | Tatuista | ||
illative | Tatuun | Tatuihin | ||
adessive | Tatulla | Tatuilla | ||
ablative | Tatulta | Tatuilta | ||
allative | Tatulle | Tatuille | ||
essive | Tatuna | Tatuina | ||
translative | Tatuksi | Tatuiksi | ||
abessive | Tatutta | Tatuitta | ||
instructive | — | Tatuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics[edit]
- Tatu is the 149th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,181 male individuals (and as a middle name to 510 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams[edit]
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Old Tupi tatu; see English tatou. Displaced by Armadill and then by Gürteltier, which see.[1]
Noun[edit]
Tatu m
- (obsolete) armadillo
- Synonyms: Gürteltier; (archaic) Armadill
References[edit]
- ^ Philip Motley Palmer, Neuweltwörter im Deutschen (1939), page 25: Armadill Das Gürteltier; vom gleichbed. span. armadillo entlehnt. Das einheimische Wort Tatu (Tupi tatu — dasypus, Martius) ist für das 16. und 17. Jh. häufig belegt (schon bei Staden 1557 S. 145), wurde aber durch Armadill und später [...] durch Gürteltier zurückgedrängt.
Categories:
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑtu
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑtu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- German terms derived from Old Tupi
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German terms with obsolete senses
- de:Mammals