Attila (name)
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Attila is a popular masculine name in both Hungary and Turkey. Another version of Attila in Hungary is Etele,[1] the female equivalent of which is Etelka. Other versions of Attila used in Turkey are Atilla and simply Atila.
Etymology
The name Attila is formed from Gothic atta, meaning "father", through the diminutive suffix -ila.[2] Related names are not uncommon among Germanic peoples of the period, i. e. Ætla, Bishop of Dorchester.[2] Historically, some scholars compared the name Attila to Ätil, the Turkic name for the Volga river, but due to it's ignorance of phonetic and semantic relationships, that theory is now considered unaccepable.[2]
A recently published article casts doubt on the Germanic origin of the name Attila, "The Gothic origin of the name Attila is questionable. It is at least as likely to be of Hunnic origin." and points out that the word "atta" is a migratory term for "father/forefather" common in multiple languages including many Turkic languages. The article also indicates that Attila's name could have originated from Turkic/Mongolian word for horse - "at, adyy/agta", but also states that "Of course we do not know how the name sounded in the language of the Huns. Sometime, somewhere, somehow a proto-form like *agtala- changed to *attila. We cannot tell if the assimilation of gt to tt, and/or if loss of a final consonant took place in Hunnic or if these changes were part of the adaptation process into Latin, Gothic and Greek...Truly, our knowledge of the Hunnic language is almost zero. One can only guess a solution to this riddle of Attila's name..." [3]
Given name
- Attila (died 453), ruler of the Huns
- Atilla Altıkat (died 1982), Turkish diplomat
- Attila Ábrahám (born 1967), Hungarian sprint canoeist
- Attila Ambrus (born 1967), Hungarian bank robber
- Attila Aşkar, Turkish mathematician and president of Koç University
- Attila Balázs (born 1989), Hungarian tennis player
- Attila Böjte (born 1976), Hungarian footballer
- Áttila de Carvalho (born 1910), known as Áttila, Brazilian international footballer
- Attila Csihar (born 1971), member of the metal band Mayhem
- Attila Czene (born 1974), Hungarian swimmer
- Attila Dargay (1927-2009), Hungarian animator
- Attila Elek (born 1982), Hungarian ice dancer
- Atilla Engin (born 1946), Turkish American musician
- Attila Fekete (disambiguation)
- Attila Filkor (born 1988), Hungarian footballer
- Attila Horváth (disambiguation)
- Attilâ İlhan (1925–2005), Turkish writer and poet
- Attila József (1905–1937), Hungarian poet
- Attila Kerekes (born 1954), Hungarian international footballer
- Attila Kovács (disambiguation)
- Attila Ladinsky (born 1949), nicknamed Le Gitan, Hungarian footballer
- Attila Petschauer (1904–1943), Hungarian 2x team Olympic champion saber fencer
- Attila Pintér (disambiguation)
- Attila Sávolt (born 1976), Hungarian tennis player
- Attila Sekerlioglu (born 1965), Turkish footballer
- Attila Simon (born 1983), Hungarian footballer
- Attila Szabó (disambiguation)
- Attila Tököli (born 1976), Hungarian footballer
- Attila Zoller (1927–1998), Hungarian-born jazz musician
- Attila (horse) (1839–1846), British thoroughbred racehorse and sire
- Attila the Hun (calypsonian) (1892–1962), Trinidadian singer
- Attila the Stockbroker (born 1957), British punk poet
See also
References
- ^ Hungarian Wikipedia - Etele article
- ^ a b c Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (1973). The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture. University of California Press. p. 389. ISBN 0520015967. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- ^ Snædal, M. (2015). ATTILA. Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, (20), 211-219. [1]
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