The word (for "father" was not so much obscene as-with its connotation of something at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of child-bearing-merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety); the comically smutty word relieved what had become a quite intolerable tension.
Hitz honek, hitz honen zikinkeria farragarriak, pixka bat laxotu zuen ia eutsi ere ezineko tentsio hura. (Izan ere "Aita", hitza-umegintzaren okerkeria moralaz zer ikusi zuzenik ez zuenez gero-ez zen lizun, baizik zakar;