tá

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɔɑː
• Homophone: tág
• Rhymes: -ɔaː

From Old Norse tá, from Proto-Germanic *taihwō, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”).

tá f (genitive singular táar, plural tær)

1. toe

From Old Norse þá, from Proto-Germanic *þan (“then”). Compare Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌽 (þan), Old English þan and þā.

tá

1. then

tá

1. when

• tá ið, táið

• át

• IPA^(key): [ˈtaː]

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tá (plural ták)

1. a syllable used in solfège to represent the quarter note as a rhythm, usually accompanied by clapping
2. dash (the longer of the two symbols of Morse code)

• IPA^(key): /tʰauː/
• Rhymes: -auː
• Homophone: tág

From Old Norse tá, from Proto-Germanic *taihwō, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”).

tá f (genitive singular táar, nominative plural tær)

1. toe

From Old Norse tá, from Proto-Germanic *tanhwą.

tá n (genitive singular tás, nominative plural tá)

1. path, footpath

From Ancient Greek ταῦ (taû).

tá n (genitive singular tás, nominative plural tá)

1. tau (Greek letter)

• át

• thá (Waterford, Kilkenny, very sporadically throughout Munster)

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠɑː/
• (Ulster, Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim, before extinction of original dialects) IPA^(key): /t̪ˠaː/

tá

1. present indicative independent affirmative progressive analytic of bí; "is"

• IPA^(key): /tʌ/

tá

1. in; at (for places far away from the speaker)
2. there

   Inh mỹnh fi vỹ inh jamã tá nĩ.

   My mom is over there where I live.

tá (ta², Zhuyin ㄊㄚˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蹹
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𨓬

• ·táa

From Proto-Celtic *tāti (compare Welsh taw (“there is”)), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /taː/

·tá

1. unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs

• ar·sissedar

·tá

1. third-person singular present progressive conjunct of at·tá

From Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”).

tá f (genitive tár, plural tær)

1. a toe

• Icelandic: tá
• Faroese: tá
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tå
• Norwegian Bokmål: tå
• Swedish: tå
• Danish: tå

From Proto-Germanic *tanhwą. Compare Finnish tanhua (“stockyard”), which was borrowed from Proto-Norse or Proto-Germanic. The noun itself is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *tanhuz (“tough”).

tá n (genitive tás, plural tá)

1. (poetic) path, walk

• Icelandic: tá
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tåg
• Old Swedish: tā, ⇒ fortā
  • Swedish: tå (dialectal)
• ⇒ Old Danish: fortā, fortæ
  • Danish: forte
  • Danish: fortov
    • Norwegian Bokmål: fortau (also from a dialectal form of fortåg)

• tá in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: tá

Clipping of está, third-person singular present indicative of estar.

tá

1. Eye dialect spelling of está.
2. (Brazil) Eye dialect spelling of estar.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tá.

• tá-se bem

Clipping of está bem and está bom.

tá

1. (colloquial) OK; all right

   Synonym: tá bom

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tá.

• ta

Clipping of está, or borrowed from Portuguese tá.

tá

1. (Uruguay) okay
   • 2008, Néstor Ganduglia, Historias mágicas del Uruguay interior, page 52:

     Y tá, y me quedé ahí.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [taː˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [taː˨˩˦]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [taː˦˥]

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 打 (SV: đả), perhaps from a rendition in Mandarin 打臣 (dǎchén, đả thần), from English dozen.

tá

1. dozen

   Synonym: lố

   một tá trứng ― one dozen eggs

Sino-Vietnamese word from 佐.

tá

1. (military) field officer (higher than uý but lower than tướng)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 佐.

tá

1. (only in compounds) to help

Sino-Vietnamese word from 借.

tá

1. to borrow

• át