TA
/tɑː/ · name
Meaning
- Initialism of Territorial Army.
- Initialism of transportation authority.
- Initialism of teaching assistant.
- Initialism of travel agent.
- Initialism of target audience.
- Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).
- Initialism of transactional analysis.
- Initialism of term assurance.
- To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).
- Initialism of toxin-antitoxin.
- Thanks.
- give (imperative)
- Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants.
- In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.
Etymology / origin
Uncertain, but possibly young child's pronunciation of thanks. Alternatively, derived from Danish tak, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.
- *þankō(gem-pro)→
- þǫkk(non)→
- tak(Danish)→
- TA (English)
- Relations: bor, der, der
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