Wiktionary

tå

See also: taa, tâa, ta̰ã, ta'a, -taa, and Appendix:Variations of "ta"

DanishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse tá.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /tɔː/, [tˢɔːˀ]

NounEdit

tå c (singular definite tåen, plural indefinite tæer)

  1. toe

InflectionEdit

Declension of tå
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tå tåen tæer tæerne
genitive tås tåens tæers tæernes

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse tá

NounEdit

tå 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 termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

 
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tå, a toe on a human foot

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

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

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

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

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

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

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

AdjectiveEdit

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

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

Etymology 3Edit

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

VerbEdit

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

  1. (transitive) to pick apart, dissolve

Etymology 4Edit

Aasen, in his 1850 dictionary, lists it as a variant of ut av.[1][2] As such, the origin of this word is not to dissimilar from that of på (“on”) from Old Norse upp á. Other variants include ta.

Alternative formsEdit

  • ta
  • taa (obsolete spelling)

PrepositionEdit

tå

  1. (dialectal) Nonstandard form of av.

AdverbEdit

tå

  1. (dialectal) Nonstandard form of av.

ReferencesEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /toː/, [tʰoː]
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NounEdit

tå c

  1. (anatomy) toe; a body part

InflectionEdit

Declension of tå 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tå tån tår tårna
Genitive tås tåns tårs tårnas

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

AnagramsEdit

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