Ätti

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See also: atti, ätti, átti, and åtti

Alemannic German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle High German atte, from Old High German atto.

Cognate with Latin atta (father) and Albanian atë (father). The word was probably originally only a vocative, but was extended with a full paradigm in most descendants, including Germanic where it was reformed as a masculine n-stem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Ätti m (plural Ätti) (Switzerland)

  1. father, dad
  2. grandfather
  3. forefather