dad

Meanings

Noun

• A father, a male parent.
• A lump or piece.
• A blow; act of striking something.

Verb

• To throw against something; to dash.

Origin

• From Middle English dadd, dadde, of uncertain origin.
• Perhaps imitative of a child's first uttered syllables da, da.
• Possibly related to Low German detta ("grandfather").
• , from Proto-Indo-European *átta, whence Sanskrit तत.
• Or, perhaps of Celtic origin, compare Welsh and Breton tad (from Proto-Brythonic *tad), Old Irish data; and possibly related to Russian дя́дя ("uncle") and/or Russian де́душка ("grandfather"), all imitative.