ta

Etymology 1
, but possibly young child's pronunciation of  or an acronym for 'thanks a lot'.

Alternatively, derived from, from , from ,.

Interjection

 * 1)  Thanks.
 * 2)  give (imperative)
 * 1)  give (imperative)

Usage notes
The expression ta ta differs, meaning goodbye.

Preposition

 * , representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants.

Etymology 3
Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti. vowel changed to 'a' to signify a flattened note.

Noun

 * 1)  In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Determiner

 * 1) this, these (feminine)

Verb

 * 1) see

Noun

 * 1) fire

Etymology
From.

Conjunction

 * 1) and

Etymology
Maybe borrowed from 🇨🇬, used only in Gascon.

Preposition

 * 1) toward, towards
 * 2)  (in benasqués and chistavín)
 * 1)  (in benasqués and chistavín)

Alternative forms

 * (a) tauã
 * (a) tauã

Etymology
From, from , feminine of. Compare 🇨🇬.

Etymology 1
From.

Particle

 * 1) all the way

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) the Arabic letter ط

Noun

 * 1) tip extremity

Etymology 1
.

Pronoun

 * 1) by us, of us  (including the person spoken to)
 * 2) our
 * 1) our

Etymology 2
.

Conjunction

 * 1) because

Pronoun

 * 1) we, us (1st personal plural inclusive short absolutive form)

Pronoun

 * 1) you

Etymology
From, from. .

Pronoun

 * 1) we

Usage notes

 * ta is used solely as a subject of a transitive verb, while is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or an object of a transitive verb.

Etymology
.

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) go

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) horse

Conjunction

 * 1) because

Pronoun

 * 1) ; you (singular)\

Etymology
, from, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) he/she

Usage notes

 * Used unstressed in a sentence; when the pronoun is stressed, is used.

Noun

 * 1) chapter
 * 2) head (part of the body)

Verb

 * 1) to castrate
 * 2) to crawl (to move slowly on hands and knees)
 * 3) to neuter

Pronoun

 * 1) that,

Etymology
From, from , feminine of.

Determiner

 * 1) your

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) late

Adverb

 * 1) Indicating conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
 * 1) Indicating conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.

Etymology
From, third-person singular present indicative of.

Noun

 * 1) rain

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Conjunction

 * 1)  and

Particle

 * 1) like, as

Verb

 * 1) see

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to come

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) he, she;

Etymology 1
From.

Verb

 * 1) to give
 * 2) to undertake, to conduct
 * 3) to fight
 * 4) to beat, to strike, to hit
 * 5) to apply
 * 6) to take place
 * 7) to describe
 * 8)  to owe (money)
 * 9) to become addicted
 * 1) to take place
 * 2) to describe
 * 3)  to owe (money)
 * 4) to become addicted
 * 1) to become addicted

Usage notes

 * As in Arabic, this verb has ditransitive construction. Thus for “I gave her the money” one says, rather than the perhaps expected.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology
From, from (compare 🇨🇬), from.

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) a  animal
 * 2) an  not castrated male animal

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) day

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to take grab with the hands
 * 2) to have
 * 3) to do
 * 1) to do

Etymology 1
From earlier and, from. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to  (to grab with the hands)
 * 2) to  (to capture)

Etymology 2
Aasen, in his 1850 dictionary, lists it as a variant of. As such, the origin of this word is not to dissimilar from that of from Old Norse. Other variants include.

Adverb

 * 1)  off

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  toe

Etymology
From, feminine of.

Determiner

 * 1) your (second-person singular possessive)

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) jerky, dried meat

Etymology
From Pre-Palauan *ta, from, from.

Numeral

 * 1)  one

Etymology
From,.

Adjective

 * 1)  that
 * 2) that one

Usage notes
The case form is only used before vowels and as the prefixed combining form. is also used as the prefixed combing form.

Pronoun

 * he, it, that one

Pronoun

 * 1) it

Usage notes
The case form is only used before vowels and as a prefixed combining form. The form ending in niggahita is also used as combining form.

Etymology
From and  and.

Verb

 * 1) to be
 * 2) to be auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb
 * 1) to be auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb
 * 1) to be auxiliary verb for the progressive/continuous aspect, preceding the gerund of the verb

Particle

 * 1) Particle with different-subject marking function (variously corresponding to 'when, then, so (that), and')

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to come

Etymology 1
Inherited from, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) this

Etymology 2
.

Interjection

 * 1)  yes

Etymology 3
Borrowed from.

Conjunction

 * 1)  and

Etymology 4
Inherited from.

Etymology
From, from , feminine of.

Pronoun

 * 1) yours (singular)

Etymology
From, from , , from , ,.

Numeral

 * 1) one

Adjective

 * 1) full of

Noun

 * , of stakes, cane, or mud

Noun

 * 1)  of bananas

Etymology
From.

Determiner

 * 1) this
 * 2)  the (definite article)

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to come

Related terms

 * -etama

Etymology
, from, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) take; to grab and move to oneself
 * 2) to bring (along); to carry
 * 3) steal
 * 4) take; catch
 * 5) take (control over)
 * 6) take; make use of
 * 7) take, pick; to choose
 * 8) take; to manage; to be able to handle
 * 9) take; to endure
 * 10) take; to ingest a medicine or a drug
 * 11) take (a course); to enroll
 * 12) take (a test)
 * 13) take, capture; remove one of the opponent's pieces (e.g. in chess)
 * 14) take; beat; be victorious
 * 15)  to start burning; to go from embers into open flames
 * 16)   take; thrive, persist
 * 17) take; to have sex with forcefully
 * 18) accept (as means of payment)
 * 19) take, to last (an amount of time)
 * 20)  to do, to get down to doing (something requiring some degree of decisiveness)
 * 1) take, capture; remove one of the opponent's pieces (e.g. in chess)
 * 2) take; beat; be victorious
 * 3)  to start burning; to go from embers into open flames
 * 4)   take; thrive, persist
 * 5) take; to have sex with forcefully
 * 6) accept (as means of payment)
 * 7) take, to last (an amount of time)
 * 8)  to do, to get down to doing (something requiring some degree of decisiveness)
 * 1) accept (as means of payment)
 * 2) take, to last (an amount of time)
 * 3)  to do, to get down to doing (something requiring some degree of decisiveness)
 * 1) take, to last (an amount of time)
 * 2)  to do, to get down to doing (something requiring some degree of decisiveness)
 * 1)  to do, to get down to doing (something requiring some degree of decisiveness)

Etymology 1
Influenced by Baybayin character.

Etymology 2
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) by both you and I; of both you and I

Etymology 3
, from.

Conjunction

 * 1) because, since

Etymology 4
.

Noun

 * 1) command of execution for commands involving weapons such as a rifle or a sword

Adverb

 * 1)  how, in what manner

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to come

Etymology
,  from.

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Particle
adds emphasis to a statement or command.
 * 1) indeed, definitely

Etymology
From Proto-Western Oceanic *ta, possibly from (compare 🇨🇬).

Determiner

 * 1) the (indefinite)

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1)  "our", Vietnamese, as opposed to,  or

Pronoun

 * 1)  I; me
 * 2) we; us
 * 1) we; us

Usage notes

 * It might be a good idea to use ta to translate the English . Also compare.
 * is now only used especially in literary or translation works, to convey hostility between the characters, as alternatives (such as ) may sound awkward or too rough, especially if the age difference between characters is significant (one translation, such as that of , may use tao for conversations between children of about the same age, but ta if there is such a difference). It is used in conjunction with or  for "you".

Preposition

 * 1) against, opposed to, contrary to

Etymology 1
Ultimately from. Initially, began preceding rather than following the word it qualfied, for example,  became. The initial of  was velarised to produce , whereupon the word was reanalysed as the phrase  , a southern colloquial form of  , literally "since (that) not". The apparent inconsistency of negative being a part of a phrase with no negative connotations led its replacement with corresponding affirmative, so    became. The initial was subsequently dropped and the pronunciation of  /tau̯/ reduced to  /ta/, as is customary, leading to such forms as  today.

Particle

 * 1)  -ever

Etymology 2
, itself a combination of 🇰🇲.

Conjunction

 * 1) if it were

Usage notes

 * Found in the phrase.

Etymology 1
From, from.

Preposition

 * 1)  to
 * 2)  up to, until

Adjective

 * 1) closed, shut

Etymology 1
From.

Pronoun

 * 1)  he, she, it chiefly used in reported speech

Usage notes
is the usual third-person pronoun in Wutunhua, and not the conventional Mandarin.

Etymology 2
From, as in.

Noun

 * 1) ashes

Etymology
From, from ,.

Preposition

 * 1) to

Etymology 1
From, from , ultimately from. Compare with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬

Verb

 * 1)  to sell something
 * (proverb on the pricelessness of a child)

Usage notes

 * ta before a direct object

Derived terms

 * ìtà

Verb

 * 1) to grow, to form, to become big
 * (family oríkì)
 * 1) to oppose or refuse something loudly

Usage notes

 * Usually a stative verb, often used in referencing to tubers (yams, potatoes).

Derived terms

 * tàápa

Verb

 * 1)  to splash, pop, explode
 * 2) to oppose or refuse something loudly
 * 1) to oppose or refuse something loudly

Usage notes

 * Usually a stative verb

Verb

 * 1)  to spring, burst, bounce

Derived terms

 * tabọ̀n-ùn

Verb

 * 1)  to shine (as in the sun or daylight)

Derived terms

 * ìyálẹ̀ta

Verb

 * 1)  to shoot, fire (from a weapon that releases a projectile).
 * 2)  to sting
 * 3)  to be spicy, to be hot
 * 4)  to kick
 * 5)  to pick, pluck, floss (as in your teeth)
 * 1)  to kick
 * 2)  to pick, pluck, floss (as in your teeth)
 * 1)  to pick, pluck, floss (as in your teeth)
 * 1)  to pick, pluck, floss (as in your teeth)

Etymology 7
Most dialects have a different cognate form, see Ekiti ì sí, Ondo è sí, Ẹ̀gbá & Ìjẹ̀bú lè sí, Ijesha yè sí, Iyagba nè ghí. See other Yoruboid languages 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Likely an innovation among the speakers of the Ọ̀yọ́ dialect of Yoruba, in which the modern Yoruba koine was constructed from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  who, whom, whose
 * (proverb on partiality)
 * (proverb on partiality)

Usage notes

 * An information-seeking question word for the human entity which is always followed by ni

Synonyms
Yoruba varieties (who, whom, whose)

Verb

 * 1) to stick out visibly, to protrude

Verb

 * 1)  to spin something, to roll

Usage notes

 * Usually a stative verb

Verb

 * 1) to snatch (suddenly)

Verb

 * 1) to flirt, to talk with teasing affection

Adjective

 * 1) hard