Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Chiefly British Used to express thanks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete or provincial reduction of take.
- n. Middle English forms of toe.
- n. The chemical symbol of tantalum.
Wiktionary
- interj. colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland Thanks.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Obs. or Scot. To take.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite
Etymologies
- Most likely influenced by the Danish word tak, the Swedish word tack, and the Icelandic word takk, meaning thanks, via a process of final consonant deletion see Wikipedia. (Wiktionary)
- Baby-talk alteration of thank you. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Alas! how long they were coming, and yet the drum at the door continued gayly its _rat ta ta ta_.”
“The city feller transferred the title ta Bartholemew, an' after a few minutes I had the title in another name usin' a few shell companies ta hide the transactions.”
“If the term ta biblia was used in the 2nd century AD to describe the books of the Bible as a whole,”
“In Reply To fer some reason what i said dint post here bubinski. the muni don't have nuthin ta do wit them transitos which is state "traffic" cops whose headquarters here is in riberas. ya got a beef-talk to the jefe there. pedrito, usually the presidente municipal does have authority with transito. don pedro”
“| Private Reply fer some reason what i said dint post here bubinski. the muni don't have nuthin ta do wit them transitos which is state "traffic" cops whose headquarters here is in riberas. ya got a beef-talk to the jefe there.”
“LinkYeah, I got somethin 'ta say navigation viewing”
“Link2 had somethin 'ta say | Yeah, I got somethin' ta say”
“Link5 had somethin 'ta say | Yeah, I got somethin' ta say navigation viewing”
“They are further called ta ` pneumatika ` tes poneri'as, spiritual wickedness, as the phrase is rendered in our version.”
“Albany itself has taken the name of a Scottish dukedom for its ancient Iroquois cognomen, Ske-nek-ta-dea: of this compound term, Ske is a propositional particle, and means beyond; nek is the Mohawk name for a pine; and the term ta-dea is descriptive of a valley.”
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ta’.
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emordnilap
reviled, loot, no, ta, rat, part, pit, stop, spat, ten, mad, mart and 108 more...
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British English that's not in America...
British English that's not in American English
dummy, ta, answerphone, first fifteen soccer, first eleven cricket, shirty, fag, Black Monday, filter coffee, woolyback, motoring, loo and 20 more...
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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Chemical Element Abbreviations
Name Sym # Wt
actinium Ac 89 (227)
aluminum Al 13 26.98
americium Am 95 (243)
antimony Sb 51 121.7
argon Ar 18 39.94
arsenic As 33 74.92
asta...zr, zn, yb, y, xe, w, v, uuu, uut, uus, uuq, uup and 108 more...
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"T-V" words
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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en chantant la gamme
the gamut of solfege and the Indian sargam
do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, sa, ga, ma, pa, dha and 14 more...
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just saying
yeah, alas, aargh, bah, because, boo, certainly, damn, geez, grrr, hey, lame and 34 more...
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Magic or Madness
Words from the glossaries in the back of the novels.
ambo, arse, bickie, biscuit, bloke, boong, bottlebrush, bronze medallion, bugger, bunyip, cardie, chips and 79 more...
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OSPD4 two-letter words
za, ye, ya, xu, xi, wo, we, ut, us, up, un, um and 88 more...
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just because
These are words I am picking just because I like them.
I might make more categorized lists later, we shall have to wait and see.animated, asperger, ersatz, surreptitious, extraneous, asynchronous, erroneous, surreal, dreamlike, lackadaisical, opium, firnification and 55 more...
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Selected words from the Queen's English
British words/phrases/slang I love using in everyday conversation.
yob, wotcher, wotsit, arse, balls-up, barmy, bint, bloke, blimey, bobby, bollocks, brolly and 78 more...
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tabla bols
in playing tabla, mnemonic syllables are used to denote the sounds made. List to be heavily edited as I come to understand the convention more.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ta.
EditorMark My take on ta: http://editormark.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/7/ Sep 21, 2011
yarb Mark: I'll sign up to that. I think if I could magically make one BrE word native to those around me it would be not balls-up, nor even minger but ta. If it takes Tw@ter to achieve that, so be it. Nov 25, 2009
EditorMark I was compelled moments ago to declare my intention to make "ta" the crossover BrE -> AmE word of 2010. (http://bit.ly/8k1TdY) It is the perfect way to say "thank you" on Twitter, much nicer than the clunky TY. I urge you to join me in making '10 the year of "ta"
Incidentally,none of the examples given present "ta" in its usage as "thank you." Nov 24, 2009
gangerh ta = thanks on planet janet Jan 27, 2008
oroboros Chemical element symbol for Tantalum. Nov 30, 2007
bilby Also a flat Egyptian bread. Nov 26, 2007
kisholi My Scottish boss uses it too and she's a darling :) Apr 3, 2007
tendrel My Scottish Mother-in-law uses this one all the time, makes me smile and think of her. =) Apr 2, 2007