# tá
## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰɔɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɔɑː
* Homophone: tág
* Rhymes: -ɔaː

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse tá.

#### Noun

tá f (genitive singular táar, plural tær)
* toe

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

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

#### Adverb

tá
* then

#### Conjunction

tá
* when

##### Synonyms

* tá ið, táið

### Anagrams

* át

## Ghomala'
### Noun

tá class 1 singular of ? class 2
* father
    Ě ghámtə́ tâp e. ― He/she respected his/her father.

#### Derived terms

* gám tâ jwi à
* má
* tabʉə̂
* tadyə
* tajyə
* tâ tá
* tâp e

### See also

* gám
* gámnyə́
* má

### References

* Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtaː]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tá (plural ták)
* a syllable used in solfège to represent the quarter note as a rhythm, usually accompanied by clapping
* dash (the longer of the two symbols of Morse code)

#### Declension
## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰauː/
* Rhymes: -auː
* Homophone: tág

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse tá.

#### Noun

tá f (genitive singular táar, nominative plural tær)
* toe

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

tá n (genitive singular tás, nominative plural tá)
* path, footpath

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ταῦ (taû).

#### Noun

tá n (genitive singular tás, nominative plural tá)
* tau (Greek letter)

##### Declension
### Anagrams

* át

## Irish
### Alternative forms

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

tá
* present indicative independent affirmative progressive analytic of bí: "is"

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 185, page 93

## Kaingang
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʌ/

### Postposition

tá
* in; at (for places far away from the speaker)
* there
    Inh mỹnh fi vỹ inh jamã tá nĩ.
       My mom is over there where I live.

## Macanese
### Particle

tá
* Alternative form of tâ: present continuous particle
    Como tá vai?How's it going?

## Mandarin
### Romanization

tá (ta$^2$, Zhuyin ㄊㄚˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蹹
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𨓬

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* ·táa

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taː/

### Verb

·tá
* unattested by itself; takes various preverbs to form verbs

#### Derived terms

* ad·cota
* ar·tá
* at·tá
* di·tá
* do·esta
* for·tá
* fris·ben
* ocu·bí
* remi·tá
* táth-

#### Related terms

* ar·sissedar

### Verb

·tá
* third-person singular present progressive conjunct of at·tá

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ.

#### Noun

tá f (genitive tár, plural tær)
* a toe

##### Declension

Even though the word originally is an on-stem (cf. Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ), it is inflected as a strong consonant stem in Old Norse.

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

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”).

#### Noun

tá n (genitive tás, plural tá)
* (poetic) path, walk

##### Descendants

* 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)

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 433; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
* page/433 Internet Archive]

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* 'tá

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈta/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: tá

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

tá
* Clipping of está.
    Cê tá falando com quem?Who are you talking to?
    Vamo, tá na hora de tomar café.Let's go, it’s time for breakfast.
* (Brazil) Eye dialect spelling of estar.
    Eu queria tá com você.I’d like to be with you.
    É bom tá sempre aprendendo, né?It’s good to always be learning, right?

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tá.

##### Derived terms

* tá-se bem

### Etymology 2

Ellipsis of tá bem or tá bom, itself a clipping of está bem.

#### Interjection

tá
* (Brazil, colloquial) OK; all right
    Synonym: tá bom

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tá.

## Slovak
### Pronoun

tá
* nominative feminine singular of ten

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* ta

### Etymology

Clipping of está, or borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tá.

### Interjection

tá
* (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 quotation)

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [taː˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [taː˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [taː˦˥]
* Audio (Hà Nội):(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Numeral

tá
* dozen
    Synonym: lố
    một tá trứng ― one dozen eggs

### Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 佐.

#### Noun

tá
* (military) field officer (higher than uý but lower than tướng)

##### Derived terms

* đại tá (大佐, “senior colonel; commodore”)
* thiếu tá (少佐, “major; lieutenant commander”)
* thượng tá (上佐, “colonel; captain”)
* trung tá (中佐, “lieutenant colonel; commander”)

### Etymology 3

Sino-Vietnamese word from 佐.

#### Verb

tá
* (only in compounds) to help

##### Derived terms

* phụ tá (輔佐, “assistant”)
* y tá (醫佐, “nurse”)

### Etymology 4

Sino-Vietnamese word from 借.

#### Verb

tá
* to borrow

##### Derived terms

* giả tá (假借, “(Chinese characters) phonetic loan”)

### Etymology 5
#### Alternative forms

* ta (colloquial, informal)

#### Interjection

tá • (佐, 些)
* An expression of inquisitiveness or emotionality
** 15th century, Lê Thánh Tông, “Núi Góa [Lonely Mountain]” in Hồng Đức Quốc Âm thi tập (Collection of Poems in Our Nation's Language), folio 37a
    細(Tới)𫢩(nay)歲(tuổi)㐌(đã)包(bao)饒(nhiêu)些(tá) 擲(Trạnh)擲(trạnh)𥾽(bền)肝(gan)渚(chửa)𥙩(lấy)𫯳(chồng)Now how old are ye? Ye remain so unwaveringly and resolutely unmarried.
** Trần Tế Xương, “Vợ Chồng Ngâu (Mr. & Mrs. Ngâu)” in Vị Thành Giai Cú tập biên (《渭城佳句摺編》 "Collection of Vị Thành's Belle Phrases")
    𫨩(Hay)羅(là)𢜝(sợ)悶(muộn)𫯳(chồng)庄(chăng)佐(tá) 唏(Hơi)󰜋(đâu)𦓡(mà)挸(kén)𩵜(cá)撰(chọn)羮(canh)Or was she so afraid of being married late that she didn't bother to be choosy?

### Anagrams

* át