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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" |