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• UK: /ˈætə/
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• General-American: /ˈætəɹ/
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From Middle English atter, ater, from Old English āttor, ǣttor, ātor (“poison”), from Proto-West Germanic *aitr, from Proto-Germanic *aitrą (“gland, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2eyd-, *h2oyd- (“tumor, abscess”), related to Ancient Greek οἶδος (oîdos, “swelling, tumour, abscess, produced by internal action”). Cognate with Scots attir (“corrupt matter, pus”), Scots atter, etter (“poison, venom”), Shetlandic eter (“poison; bitter cold”), Old Norse eitr, Icelandic eitur (“poison”), Faroese eitur, Norwegian eiter (“venom”), Swedish etter (“poison, venom, virulence”), Danish edder, ædder (“venom”), Saterland Frisian Atter (“pus”), Dutch etter (“pus”), German Eiter (“poison, pus”).

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 毒液 (dúyè) — poisonous bodily fluid
• Danish: edder — poisonous bodily fluid
• Dutch: ether — poisonous bodily fluid
• Faroese: eitur — poisonous bodily fluid
• German: Eiter — poisonous bodily fluid
• Icelandic: eitur — poisonous bodily fluid
• Latin: vīrus — poisonous bodily fluid
• Middle English: atter — poisonous bodily fluid
• Old English: ăttor — poisonous bodily fluid
• Old English: ātor — poisonous bodily fluid
• Old Norse: eitr — poisonous bodily fluid
• Old Saxon: ĕttar — poisonous bodily fluid
• Polish: jad — poisonous bodily fluid
• Swedish: etter — poisonous bodily fluid
• Old Swedish: ēter — poisonous bodily fluid
• Middle English: atter — moral corruption or corruptness
• Swedish: förgiftning — moral corruption or corruptness