tå

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

Danish

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Etymology

From Old Norse tá.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔː/, [tˢɔːˀ]

Noun

tå c (singular definite tåen, plural indefinite tæer)

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

Derived terms

Inflection

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

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Old Norse tá.

Noun

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 terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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

Noun

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 terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

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

Adjective

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 terms

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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

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 forms

  • ta
  • taa (obsolete spelling)

Preposition

tå

  1. (dialectal) Nonstandard form of av.

Adverb

tå

  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

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toː/, [tʰoː]
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Noun

tå c

  1. (anatomy) toe; a body part

Inflection

Declension of tå
nominative genitive
singular indefinite tå tås
definite tån tåns
plural indefinite tår tårs
definite tårna tårnas

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Tircul

Pronunciation

Numeral

  1. 1 (one)

See also

  • (Pyu digits):           
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