different between tay vs tad

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /te?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology

Spelling form indicating original pronunciation of tea.

Noun

tay (plural tays)

1. (obsolete or dialect) Tea.

Anagrams

• AYT, Yat, yat

Kalasha

Determiner

tay

1. your (singular)

Coordinate terms

• mími

Kwaza

Noun

tay

1. woman

References

• Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Middle French taye, and its source, Latin t?ca, th?ca, from Ancient Greek ???? (th?k?, “covering, sheath”)

Noun

tay (plural tays)

1. The outer membrane of the brain.

   • ryght so he smote hys fadir, Kynge Arthure, with hys swerde holdynge in both hys hondys, uppon the syde of the hede, that the swerde perced the helmet and the tay of the brayne.

References

• “tei and teie, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 September 2020.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tay

1. Alternative form of þei

Paipai

Adjective

tay

1. big

Pipil

Alternative forms

• (Izalco) tey (/?te?j/)

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *tla-. Compare Classical Nahuatl tlein (“what”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?j/

Pronoun

tay

1. (interro?ative) what

   Tay tikwaj yalua?

   What did you eat yesterday?

2. (relative) what; that which; the thing that

   Tesu nikmati ne tay inak

   I dont't know what she/he said

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (tay), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Kazakh ??? (tay).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?j/

Noun

tay (definite accusative tay?, plural taylar)

1. colt (horse)

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *si?, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *sii(?) (Shorto). Cognate with Thavung ??. Compare Sora si?i.

The relationship between this root and the root represented by Khmer ?? (day), Bahnar ti, Juang iti is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [taj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [taj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta(?)j??]
• Homophone: tai (in some Southern accents)

Noun

tay • (????)

1. (colloquial) a hand
2. (colloquial) an arm

3. (informal) a guy; a dude

Derived terms

English

Etymology

1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

tad (plural tads)

1. (informal) A small amount; a little bit.

   Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more?

2. (US, slang, dated) A street boy; an urchin.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:modicum.

Translations

Anagrams

• .dat, ADT, ATD, D. A. T., D.A.T., DAT, DTA, TDA, dat, dat.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??t/

Noun

tad m (plural tadoù)

1. father

Inflection

Derived terms

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tad

Noun

tad

1. the cigar wrasse (Cheilio inermis)

Latvian

Adverb

tad

1. then
2. at that time
3. after that
4. afterwards

Middle English

Noun

tad

1. toad

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (tad).

Adjective

tad

1. (demonstrative) neuter nominative/accusative singular of ta (“that”)

Pronoun

tad

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of ta (“it”)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâd/

Adverb

t?d (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. then, at that time

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?d/

Noun

tad m (plural tadau)

1. father

Coordinate terms

• mab (“son”)
• mam (“mother”)
• merch (“daughter”)

Mutation