Roots with initial a-vocalism (2)

*at- `father', together with variant *t-at- (Mallory-Adams 210-211). By
Watkins this root is reconstructed as *atto-, by Pokorny as *atos. I
see in *atto- an expressive gemination.
1. Alb atë `father' from *at-aH2 with derivatives: atësi `fatherhood',
atdhe `fatherland, homeland', atënor/atëror `paternal' etc., pl.
eten/etër in -inV explains the Umlaut and rhotacism in Tosk dialect.
2a. Alb atëlosh `term of respect for addressing grandfather or other
old man`; b. atgjysh `ancestor`: Oir aithe `foster-father; teacher',
Lat atta `father', Goth atta `father', Rus otec `father', Grk
attas `father', Hitt attas `father'. It is worth to be noticed that
also in Turkish we found ata `father`. (Pokorny atos 71.)
2. Alb tatë `father, grandfather', tatëmath/tatëlosh `grand father'
with hypocoristic form ta `O father', noticed by Meyer (EW 424-425),
second compound tatëlosh as adjective has the meaning `kindly, nice`:
NWels tad, Lat (inscriptional) tata, Grk tata, Luv ta:tis, Skt tata -
all `father'. Seems that Serbia tata and Bulgarian tati are loans from
Albanian with their a-vocalism (see above Rus otec, Srb-Cr otac).
(Pokorny tata- 1056.)

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