taa

Symbol

taa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lower Tanana.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lower Tanana terms

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).

Etymology 2

From Arabic تَاء (tāʔ).

Etymology 3

Anagrams

• -ata, AAT, ATA, âta

Etymology 1

From English other.

Etymology 2

From English tar.

References

• Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)

Etymology

Ultimately from ǃXóõ tâa ǂàã (literally “people's language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaa/
• Rhymes: -aa
• Hyphenation: ta‧a

Adjective

taa (accusative singular taan, plural taaj, accusative plural taajn)

1. (la taa) clipping of la taa lingvo (“the Taa language”)

Etymology

taka +‎ -(k) (k-lative singular)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation^(key): taa

Postposition

taa [with genitive] (dialectal, poetic)

1. (of movement) (to) behind

   Se laskeutui metsän taa. ― It landed behind the forest.

Further reading

• “taa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• -ata, aat

Etymology

From earlier taha, from Old Anatolian Turkish دَاخِی (daḫi), دَخِی (daḫi), from Proto-Turkic *takï, whence also da and dä. Compare Turkish daha, de, da, dahi; Azerbaijani daha, də, da and archaic dəxi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑː/

Adverb

taa

1. forms comparitives of the following adjective or adverb, more, -er.
   • 1938, Mihail Ciachir, Dicționar Gagauzo (Tiurco) - Român Pentru Gagauzii Din Basarabia, page 1:

     Laflâc gagauzcea (tiurccea) hem romândja (moldovandja) Bessarabiealâ gagauzlar icin - gagauzlarân eardâmdjisâ taa colai iurenmeea român dilini hem taa ei laf-etmeea dei românja (moldovândja)

     Gagauz(Turkish) and Romanian (Moldovan) dictionary for Bessarabian Gagauz people - helper of the Gagauz people to learn the Romanian language easier and to better speak Romanian (Moldovan)

   taa eni ― newer

   taa gözäl ― more beautiful

2. yet, still
3. so far, as yet
4. even
5. more, else

Further reading

• Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 76
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “taa”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 454

Etymology

From Proto-Eskimo *taʁu. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /taa/, [təː]

Noun

taa

1. human being

Interjection

taa

1. listen!; what is that?; I tut!

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [tāā]

Verb

taa

1. to be small

References

• Kelly Harper Berkson, Amanda Bohnert, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Consonant Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎, volume 3, number 1

Noun

tàá (plural tàá)

1. father

Further reading

• Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN