tå

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ta"

Danish

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)

Inflection

Declension of tå

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

Derived terms

• fra top til tå
• storetå
• tånegl

Norwegian Bokmål

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

• fra topp til tå
• stortå
• tånegl

References

• “tå” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

• Taa, taa (obsolete spellings)

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

• 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.

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

• 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)

1. (transitive) to pick apart, dissolve

Etymology 4

Aasen, in his 1850 dictionary, lists it as a variant of ut av. As such, the origin of this word is not too dissimilar from that of på (“on”) from Old Norse upp á. See also tu (“out of”), ti (“in”) and poinni (“under”).

Alternative forms

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

Preposition

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

tå

1. (dialectal) Nonstandard form of av.

References

• “tå” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• åt

Swedish

tår

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toː/, [t̪ʰoə̯]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tå c

1. (anatomy) toe

Inflection

Declension of tå

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

Derived terms

• barntå
• från topp till tå
• gå på tå
• kameltå
• lilltå
• partåig
• stortå
• trampa någon på tårna
• tåbira
• tåfis
• tåfjutt
• tåled
• tånagel
• tåpaj
• uddatåig

 

See also

• fot

References

• tå in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tå in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tå in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

Anagrams

• åt

Tircul

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪əm/

Numeral

1. 1 (one)

See also

• (Pyu digits):