teta
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- breast
- nipple
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French tete (teat, nipple) derived from Frankish *titta derived from Proto-Germanic *titt- (nipple, breast, teat) derived from Proto-Indo-European *tata- (father, nipple, parent).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*tata-
Gloss
father, nipple, parent
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
親
Emoji
🎅
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Tetilla English
- teat English
- titia Latin
- titta Latin
- Zitze German
- tetta Italian
- tettina Italian
- tettona Italian
- tette French
- tétin French
- destetar Spanish, Castilian
- tetazo Spanish, Castilian
- tetilla Spanish, Castilian
- tetuda Spanish, Castilian
- θῆτα Ancient Greek
- τίτθη Ancient Greek
- *dʰeh₁(y)- Proto-Indo-European
- *tata- Proto-Indo-European
- teta Portuguese
- *titt- Proto-Germanic
- tit Old English
- titt Old English
- tete Old French
- teta Galician
- teto Galician
- teta Old Portuguese
- tsãtsã Aromanian
- *titta Frankish
- Titte Low German