Atland = fatherland?

[net_eamelje]

Most assume that Atland is to be read as "Old land", but I was wondering if it could originally have meant "Fatherland"? In current frysian language, the word for father is "heit" (pronounce as 'hait"), but old frysian and gothic it would have been "atta" (https://www.schotanus.us/Friesland/Frie ... risian.htm). Atta-land, written as/bastardized as Atland?

[Jonko]

Seems likely from my own research. Another thing I'd like to mention regarding the fatherly paternal lineage of central europeans is Haplogroup I, I believe this to be the Haplogroup that mixed native germanic hunter gatherers with the neanderthals and later mixed them again with anatolian farmers. This is a whole rabbithole in itself tied to the region of the netherlands and dutch geneaology going back 300,000 years to neanderthals who mixed gradually and kept culture consistent.