ta
Swedish
/tɑː/
verb-irr
Definitions
- take; to grab and move to oneself
- to bring (along); to carry
- steal
- take; catch
- take (control over)
- take; make use of
- take, pick; to choose
- take; to manage; to be able to handle
- take; to endure
- take; to ingest a medicine or a drug
- take (a course); to enroll
- take (a test)
- take, capture; remove one of the opponent's pieces (e.g. in chess)
- take; beat; be victorious
- (reflexive) to start burning
- (reflexive) to burn more intensely or hotter; to go from embers into open flames
- (reflexive) about a plant take; thrive, persist
- take; to have sex with forcefully
- accept (as means of payment)
- take, to last (an amount of time)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish taka inherited from Old Norse taka (take, touch, grasp, receiving, taking) inherited from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (touch, grasp, take) derived from Proto-Indo-European *deh₁g- (touch).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*deh₁g-
Gloss
touch
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- betake English
- caretake English
- entertake English
- foretake English
- fortake English
- intake English
- mistake English
- offtake English
- ontake English
- outtake English
- overtake English
- retake English
- stocktake English
- take English
- takeable English
- takeaway English
- takeover English
- taker English
- takest English
- undertake English
- uptake English
- wapentake English
- withtake English
- wrongtake English
- taata Finnish
- teikata Finnish
- *deh₁g- Proto-Indo-European
- ta Norwegian Bokmål
- *tēkanaz Proto-Germanic
- *tēkaną Proto-Germanic
- anspråk Swedish
- bort Swedish
- bortta Swedish
- före Swedish
- företa Swedish
- i Swedish
- ianspråkta Swedish
- in Swedish
- inta Swedish
- kragen Swedish
- otagbar Swedish
- sig Swedish
- ta sig i kragen Swedish
- undan Swedish
- undanta Swedish
- upp Swedish
- uppta Swedish
- vid Swedish
- vidta Swedish
- åta Swedish
- överta Swedish
- ta Norwegian Nynorsk
- tacan Old English
- taken Middle English
- arftaka Old Norse
- arftakari Old Norse
- arftaki Old Norse
- aurataka Old Norse
- taka Old Norse
- tekt Old Norse
- yfirtaka Old Norse
- deltage Danish
- gentage Danish
- modtage Danish
- optage Danish
- tage Danish
- tage sig sammen Danish
- varetage Danish
- vedtage Danish
- taka Icelandic
- taca Old Irish
- taka Faroese
- 𐍄𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- taka Old Swedish
- taga Westrobothnian
- taghæ, takæ Old Danish
- undtagæ Old Danish
- teki Sranan Tongo
- tek Jamaican Creole