tå

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ta"

Danish

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tå

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From Old Norse tá.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɔː/, [tˢɔːˀ]

Noun

tå c (singular definite tåen, plural indefinite tæer)

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

Inflection

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

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

tå

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Old Norse tá.

Noun

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

References

“tå” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

tå

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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

Alternative forms

Taa, taa (obsolete spellings)

Noun

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

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)

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)

thawed, bare, free of ice and frost
Synonyms: berr, telefri

Derived terms

tåe
tåen

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)

(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 på (“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

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
- 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 tå krutt, sjarm og ildvann.
  I'm dreaming me away in your's smoke of gunpowder, charme and firewater

Adverb

tå

(dialectal) nonstandard form of av

References

“tå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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