Getting the parent from the wp_term_taxonomy

Is there a built in wordpress function that let’s me look up the
“parent” field of the wp_term_taxonomy table if I pass the TT_ID to
it?

Something like

get_value ( $wp_table_name, $id_fieldname, $id_value,
$the_field_info_to_retrieve )

Example

get_value ( "wp_term_taxonomy", "term_taxonomy_id", "parent");