See also: Appendix:Variations of "ta"

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse .

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔː/, [tˢɔːˀ]

Noun

 c (singular definite tåen, plural indefinite tæer)

  1. toe (part of a foot; also part of a sock, stocking or shoe)

Inflection

Declension of
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tåen tæer tæerne
genitive tås tåens tæers tæernes

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse .

Noun

 f or m (definite singular tåa or tåen, indefinite plural tær, definite plural tærne)

  1. a toe (part of a foot; also part of a sock, stocking or shoe)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse , from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. from the Proto-Indo-European root *deyḱ- (to point out). Cognate with Latin digitus.

Alternative forms

Noun

 f (definite singular tåa, indefinite plural tær, definite plural tærne)

  1. a toe (part of a foot; also part of a sock, stocking or shoe)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse þá, from Proto-Germanic *þawō. Related to the verb (from Old Norse þeyja). Related to English thaw.

Noun

 f (definite singular tåa, indefinite plural tåer, definite plural tåene)

  1. thawed ground; ground that is free from frost and ice

Adjective

(neuter singular tått, definite singular and plural or tåe, comparative tåare, indefinite superlative tåast, definite superlative tåaste)

  1. thawed, bare, free of ice and frost
    Synonyms: berr, telefri
Derived terms

Etymology 3

There is a suspected relation to and teia, from Proto-Norse ᛏᚨᚹᛁᛞᛟ (tawido, I made), from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną.

Verb

(present tense tår, past tense tådde, past participle tått/tådd, passive infinitive tåast, present participle tåande, imperative )

  1. (transitive) to pick apart, dissolve

Etymology 4

Aasen, in his 1850 dictionary, lists it as a variant of ut av.[1][2] As such, the origin of this word is not too dissimilar from that of (on) from Old Norse upp á. A transitional variant tof is attested in Råbyggjelaget glossary of David Klim (17th century). See also tu (out of), ti (in) and poinni (under).

Alternative forms

  • ta (the same etymology)
  • taa (obsolete spelling)

Preposition

  1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) nonstandard form of av
    Æ skjønne itj bæra det som stend ti paperom
    I don't understand a word of what is written in the papers
    • 1711, “Norgies Frygd i Bye og Bygd”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 83:
      Kanner aa Staauper va fulle
      Taa Øll aa taa Vinn, saa dom rulle
      Jars and shot-glasses were full
      Of beer and of wine, so they rolled
    • 2018, NDL, “Morgan Cockaine”, in Demo:
      Æ drømme' mæ bort i dokkers røyk krutt, sjarm og ildvann.
      I'm dreaming me away in your's smoke of gunpowder, charme and firewater

Adverb

  1. (dialectal) nonstandard form of av

References

  1. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “taa”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
  2. ^ Ivar Aasen (1850) “ut-av”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[2] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

Anagrams

Pyu (Myanmar)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-tek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪əm/

Numeral

  1. 1 (one)

See also

  • (Pyu digits):


Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ta, from Old Norse , from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toː/, [t̪ʰoə̯]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

 c

  1. (anatomy) toe

Inflection

Derived terms

See also

References

Anagrams