tå
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tå c (singular definite tåen, plural indefinite tæer)
- toe (part of a foot; also part of a sock, stocking or shoe)
Inflection edit
Derived terms edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
tå f or m (definite singular tåa or tåen, indefinite plural tær, definite plural tærne)
- a toe (part of a foot; also part of a sock, stocking or shoe)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “tå” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse tá, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. from the Proto-Indo-European root *deyḱ- (“to point out”). Cognate with Latin digitus.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
tå f (definite singular tåa, indefinite plural tær, definite plural tærne)
- a toe (part of a foot; also part of a sock, stocking or shoe)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse þá, from Proto-Germanic *þawō. Related to the verb tø (from Old Norse þeyja). Related to English thaw.
Noun edit
tå f (definite singular tåa, indefinite plural tåer, definite plural tåene)
Adjective edit
tå (neuter singular tått, definite singular and plural tå or tåe, comparative tåare, indefinite superlative tåast, definite superlative tåaste)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
There is a suspected relation to tæ and teia, from Proto-Norse ᛏᚨᚹᛁᛞᛟ (tawido, “I made”), from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną.
Verb edit
tå (present tense tår, past tense tådde, past participle tått/tådd, passive infinitive tåast, present participle tåande, imperative tå)
- (transitive) to pick apart, dissolve
Etymology 4 edit
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 på (“on”) from Old Norse upp á. See also tu and poinni.
Alternative forms edit
Preposition edit
tå
- (dialectal, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) Nonstandard form of av.
- Æ skjønne itj bæra tå det som stend ti paperom
- I don't understand a word of what is written in the papers
- 2018, NDL (lyrics and music), “Morgan Cockaine”, in Demo:
- Æ drømme' mæ bort i dokkers røyk tå krutt, sjarm og ildvann.
- I'm dreaming me away in your's smoke of gunpowder, charme and firewater
- Æ skjønne itj bæra tå det som stend ti paperom
Adverb edit
tå
References edit
- “tå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- ^ Ivar Aasen (1850), “taa”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
- ^ Ivar Aasen (1850), “ut-av”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog, Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
Anagrams edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish ta, from Old Norse tá, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tå c
Inflection edit
Declension of tå | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tå | tån | tår | tårna |
Genitive | tås | tåns | tårs | tårnas |
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- tå in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tå in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tå in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)