tå
Danish
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
Norwegian Bokmål
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
From Old Norse tá, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ. from the Proto-Indo-European root *deyḱ- (“to point out”). Cognate with Latin digitus.
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
- frå topp til tå
- litletå
- stortå
- tåfis
- vesletå
Etymology 2
From Old Norse þá, from Proto-Germanic *þawō. Related to the verb tø (from Old Norse þeyja). Related to English thaw.
Adjective
tå (neuter singular tått, definite singular and plural tå or tåe, comparative tåare, indefinite superlative tåast, definite superlative tåaste)
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)
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. See also tu and poinni.
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
- 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
References
- “tå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Ivar Aasen (1850) “taa”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
- Ivar Aasen (1850) “ut-av”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog (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/, [t̪ʰoə̯]
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Inflection
Declension of tå | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tå | tån | tår | tårna |
Genitive | tås | tåns | tårs | tårnas |