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Dad
Definitions
- 1 One’s father. informal
"Dad told me to go out and mow the lawn."
- 2 Initialism of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (early title of Dragon Age: The Veilguard). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang
"Currently replaying in preparation for DAD, and the Josiemance is still as lovely as I remember."
- 1 A father, a male parent. informal
"His dad was always there for him."
- 2 A lump or piece.
- 3 Alternative form of daad (“Arabic letter ض”). alt-of, alternative
- 4 A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating that the contents were recorded in digital but mixed in analog before being mastered to a digital medium.
- 5 an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk wordnet
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- 6 Used to address one's father; often capitalized.
"Happy Father's Day, dad!"
- 7 A blow; act of striking something.
- 8 Acronym of diffuse alveolar damage. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 9 Used to address an older adult male. slang
- 10 Acronym of Dutch angel dragon. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, slang
- 1 To be a father to; to parent.
- 2 To throw against something; to dash. transitive
- 3 To act like a dad.
Etymology
From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”). * Perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”), all imitative. In Welsh, when subject to soft mutation (which occurs in vocative contexts, among others), tad becomes dad. * Perhaps imitative of a child's first uttered syllables da, da. * Possibly from a metathetic variation of a hypothetical Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô ("father, forefather"; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), Middle High German tate (“father, dad”) (whence German Tate (“dad”), Bavarian tatte (“dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”)), Icelandic táta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”).
From Early Modern English dadd, dadde (circa 1500), undoubtedly older, from unrecorded Middle English *dadde, of uncertain ultimate origin. Compare West Frisian deite (“dad, daddy”), Swabian Dede (“Godfather”). * Perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя (djádja, “uncle”) and/or Russian де́душка (déduška, “grandfather”), all imitative. In Welsh, when subject to soft mutation (which occurs in vocative contexts, among others), tad becomes dad. * Perhaps imitative of a child's first uttered syllables da, da. * Possibly from a metathetic variation of a hypothetical Old English *ætta, *atta (“father”), from Proto-West Germanic *attō, from Proto-Germanic *attô ("father, forefather"; whence also North Frisian ate, aatj, taatje, tääte (“father; dad”), Middle High German tate (“father, dad”) (whence German Tate (“dad”), Bavarian tatte (“dad”), Cimbrian tatta (“dad”)), Icelandic táta (“dad”)), from Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”), whence Sanskrit तत (tata, “father”).
From dade (“to strike heavily”), dade (“a heavy blow or thud”). Probably onomatopoeic.
From dade (“to strike heavily”), dade (“a heavy blow or thud”). Probably onomatopoeic.
Proprialisation of dad.
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