atá

Inflected form of bí; from Old Irish at·tá.

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /əˈt̪ˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /əˈt̪ˠaː/

atá

1. present indicative independent affirmative progressive relative of bí

   Labhróidh mé leis an mbuachaill atá ag dul abhaile.

   I will speak to the boy who is going home.

   • 2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 1:

     Thuas i dteach an tsolais, faoi réaltaí geala, canann Bronach Amhrán na Mara dá mac Ben atá cúig bliana d'aois.

     [original: Up in the lighthouse, under twinkling stars, Bronach sings the Song of the Sea to her five-year-old son, Ben.]

Inflected form of at (“to swell”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /əˈt̪ˠɑː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈat̪ˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈat̪ˠa/

atá

1. second-person singular past subjunctive of at

a·tá

1. Alternative spelling of at·tá

• IPA^(key): /aˈta/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧tá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ata, from Proto-Tupian *atʲa.[1]

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní tata and Paraguayan Guaraní tata.

atá (IIa class pluriform, absolute tatá, R1 ratá, R2 satá) (possessable)

1. fire

• Nheengatu: atá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ata.[2]

atá (possessable)

1. walk; hike

• atapûana

• Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos‎ (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “atá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 67, column 2

• IPA^(key): /aˈta/ [aˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧tá

atá

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of atar