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tha

tha

See also: THA, -tha, þa, and þá

English

Pronoun

tha

  1. (Northern England) Eye dialect spelling of thou. (parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire where the MOUTH vowel became [a:] and then shortened in an unstressed thou)

Anagrams


Eastern Cham

Eastern Cham cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : tha

Etymology

From Proto-Chamic *sa, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *əsa, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *əsa.

Numeral

tha

  1. (cardinal) one

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish at·tá (Modern Irish ), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (to stand).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ha/, /haː/

Verb

tha

  1. am, are, is
    Tha mi pòsda. ― I'm married.
    Tha mi à Colbhasa. ― I am from Colonsay.
    Tha mi a' smaoineachadh gu bheil. ― I am thinking so.
    Tha thu fadalach. ― You are late.
    Tha an duine anns an taigh. ― The man is in the house.
  2. there is, there are
    Tha duine anns an taigh. ― There is a man in the house.
    Tha daoine anns an taigh. ― There are men in the house.

Usage notes

  • The root of the verb is bi, the infinitive is a bhith.
  • The dependent form, used after particles, is bheil or eil, depending on the particle in question.
  • Tha is used as an affirmative answer to questions formed with bheil or eil.
    A bheil thu toilichte? —Tha.
    Are you happy? —Yes.
  • When linking the subject of a sentence with a complement consisting of a noun phrase ("somebody is somebody", "somebody is something", "something is something"), the verb is is used:
    Tha mise anns an t-seòmar. ― I am in the room.
    Is mise Dòmhnall. ― I am Donald.

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • attá” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.