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tå

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ta"

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse tá.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɔː/, [tˢɔːˀ]

Noun

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tå c (singular definite tåen, plural indefinite tæer)

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

Inflection

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse tá.

Noun

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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)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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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 forms

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Noun

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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)
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

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

Adjective

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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
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Etymology 3

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

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) to pick apart, dissolve

Etymology 4

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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

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

Preposition

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tå

  1. (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

Adverb

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tå

  1. (dialectal) Nonstandard form of av.

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  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

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Swedish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /toː/, [t̪ʰoə̯]
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Noun

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tå c

  1. (anatomy) toe; a body part

Inflection

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

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Tircul

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Pronunciation

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Numeral

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  1. 1 (one)

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