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

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