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| Hindi | pità | (Bengali id., Sinhala id.) father |
| Tamil | bita | father |
| Skr. | pita, paitar | father |
| Pers. | pader | father |
| Mod.Greek | pater | father (cf. Gael.S. athair, father) |
| Dan. | fader | (Svensk, Icel. id.) father |
| Norsk | vader | (Dutch id.) father |
| Engl. | father | Germ. vater father |
| Lith. | pats | father |
| Ital. | patre | father |
| Span. | padre | father |
| Germ.: Styria | peer | father |
| Franç. | père | father. On the other hand the following nouns |
| signifying "parents" are related to French paire couple, the pair: Sard., Span.: Cantabrian Mts. pare, French and Engl. parents "progenitors", "the pair", and regional French pairons "progenitors among animals". This explains why parents is used in the plural; to designate the unit, we say "one of the parents" i.e "one of the pair" |