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The word "father" can be traced back to the Latin word 'pater'.
There was a process called "the great consonant shift" which meant that related languages began to change and letters such as
"p" began to be pronounced as "f" or "v",
"t" began to be pronounced as "d"
This explains why the Latin word "pater" translates so similarly into various European languages as
* vater - German * father - English * padre - Italian & Spanish * athar - Irish (the initial consonant has disappeared altogether) * pere - French (the middle consonant has disappeared)
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoPersonally, I think that since babies can't say father, they would say something like Dada. So since it was easier to say than "father" all the time, it caught on. I also assume that older children wanted to change it to make it sound older, they started saying "dad".
2. Children in all cultures and all languages make the sounds "MA" and "DA" first. Thus, they have through time turned into the words for parents in most languages. Dad is a natural evolution of the da-da-da-da sound that all infants make.
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∙ 11y agoThe term mom is often thought to be a shortened version of the word mother. It can be seen with some variation in many languages. The term dad is often associated with the vocalization da da that babies often make. This too is seen in many places.
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∙ 16y agoDaddy, slang for dad, orignates from the Latin word, tata, meaning father.
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∙ 13y agoOld High German fater, ultimately deriving from the Indo-European pœter (I-E spelling varies depending on what phonological system you use).
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∙ 11y agoRecorded in the 15th Century, but much older than that, the word is universal and suggestions are that it is 'pre historic'
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∙ 14y agoIt is Latin, for 'father'.
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∙ 11y agohaligi
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