verb, intj, prep and 1 more — 5 senses
To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).
/tɑː/ · [tʰɑː]
Etymology Uncertain, but possibly young child's pronunciation of thanks. Alternatively, derived from Danish tak, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.
Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, Colloquial Thanks.
Commonwealth, Childish give (imperative)
/tə/
Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of to, representing the standard unstressed pronunciation before consonants.
Etymology Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become ti. vowel changed to 'a' to signify a flattened note.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for TA and ta.