ato

Clipping of English Atong or Atong (Cameroon) Atong (Atoŋ).

ato

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Atong (Cameroon).

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Atong (Cameroon) terms

• atônê — southern Gheg, Kavajë

From Proto-Albanian *a-tā(s), compound of proclitic particle a and demonstrative tās, from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂es, feminine plural of *tód (“that (one)”) (compare Latin istud, English that).
The accusative is from Proto-Albanian *a-tā(s), from earlier *a-tā(n)s, from *téh₂ns, and older and dialectal varieties retain ablative asosh, acosh, from a + Proto-Albanian *tsjāsu, from *ḱjéh₂su, locative of Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this (one)”) (compare English he).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /aˈtɔ/
• (southern Gheg, Kavajë) IPA^(key): [äˈtɔ̃nɛ̃]

ato f pl (accusative ato, dative atyre, ablative atyre)

1. they

ato

1. lie (an untruthful statement)

ato

1. first-person singular present indicative of atar

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ato

1. lie, (untruthful statement)

• atoa

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔato/ [ˈʔa.t̪o]
• Hyphenation: a‧to

ato

1. ours

ato

1. our

Compare with Yoruba òtò (Èkìtì)

• IPA^(key): /à.tò/

àtò

1. monkey

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atò (Benin)

1. dog-faced baboon

ato

1. first-person singular present indicative of atar

From Proto-Philippine *ásu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *asu.

áto

1. dog (animal)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

ato

1. Rōmaji transcription of あと

• âto (Grafîa ofiçiâ)

From Latin altus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.tu/

ato (feminine singular ata, masculine plural ati, feminine plural ate)

1. tall
2. high

• erto

From Proto-Polynesian *qato (compare with Tahitian ato, Hawaiian ako),^[1][2] from Proto-Oceanic *qatop, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatəp (compare with Malay atap, Tagalog atip).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈato/ [ˈɐtɔ]

ato

1. thatch, roof

   Synonyms: rauwhare, raurau

ato (passive atohia or atotia or atoa)

1. to thatch

   I taua moutere ka atohia ngā whare ki ngā rau o te niu. (PK 2008:40)

   On that island the houses are thatched with the leaves of the coconut tree.

2. to fence in, enclose

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “ato”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 24
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “ato”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎^[3], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

From Marathi आत्या (ātyā).

• IPA^(key): /ato/

ato

1. paternal aunt

   Synonym: matant

Inherited from Latin alterum.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈaːtə], (in sandhi) [-u]
  • (feminine) IPA^(key): [ˈaːtə], (in sandhi) [-a]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈaːu̯tə]

ato (feminine singular ata, plural ate)

1. other

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1444: “l'altro raccoglie” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “ato-a”, in Schedario Napoletano
• Ledgeway, Adam (2009), Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, page 80

Univerbation of a + oto. First attested in the 15th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /atɔ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /atɔ/

ato

1. (hapax legomenon) here!

   Synonym: oto

   • 1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎^{transliteration, transcription}, 9, 9:

     Ato tez vstawyø (ecce ego statuam) slyub moy myedzy wamy a s waszym naszenym po was

     [Ato też ustawię (ecce ego statuam) ślub moj miedzy wami a z waszym nasienim po was]

• Middle Polish: ato

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “ato”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Polish ato. By surface analysis, univerbation of a +‎ oto.

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tɔ/
• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Podegrodzie) IPA^(key): [ˈa.tɔ]

ato

1. (Middle Polish or dialectal, Podegrodzie) here!

   Synonym: oto

ato

1. (Middle Polish) and here
2. (Middle Polish) and yet, however
3. (Middle Polish) The meaning of this term is uncertain.
   • 1588, Acta primi regiminis Sigismundi III‎^[4], page 84:

     boscie nas tam czci poodsądzali, powiedział ato iako odaycie pokoy.

• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “ato”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “ato”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ato”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “a to”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 68
• Karol Mátyás (1891), “ato”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 319

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• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: a‧to

Learned borrowing from Latin āctus, from agere. Doublet of auto.

• acto (pre-1990 spelling)

ato m (plural atos)

1. act (deed)
2. act (state of existence)
3. act (process of doing something)
4. act (division of theatrical performance)
5. act (display of behaviour)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ato

1. first-person singular present indicative of atar

• “ato”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Proto-Polynesian *qato, from Proto-Oceanic *qatop, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatəp.

ato

1. to roof; to put a roof on

• “ato”, in Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN

ato

1. father

   Synonym: dod

   Antonyms: ano, moda, nan

• IPA^(key): /ˈato/ [ˈa.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: a‧to

ato

1. first-person singular present indicative of atar

• hato (homophone)

From Proto-Polynesian *qato, from Proto-Oceanic *qatop, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatəp.

• IPA^(key): /a.to/

ato

1. thatch

   Synonym: aʻu

ato

1. to thatch

Borrowed from Russian а то (a to).

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈɑto/, [ˈɑto], /ɑˈto/, [ɑˈto]
• Rhymes: -ɑto, -o
• Hyphenation: a‧to

ato

1. or else, otherwise

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “ato”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[5], 2nd edition, Tallinn

• IPA^(key): /ˈatɔ/

• (first-person singular): ata, ataf

ato

1. (literary, colloquial) third-person singular masculine of at
2. (colloquial) (South Wales) first-person singular of at

ato

1. soft mutation of gato

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.t̪o/

ato

1. thatch

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): [ato]

ato (possessed atotü)

1. alternative form of a'to (“rope, twine, snell”)

• atu, hato

Compare Carabayo ao (“father”).

ato

1. father

• Seifart and Echeverri, Evidence for the Identification of Carabayo, the Language of an Uncontacted People of the Colombian Amazon, as Belonging to the Tikuna–Yurí Linguistic Family, PLoS ONE 9(4) (2014)