tas

Noun

tas (plural tasses)

1. Alternative spelling of tass

Anagrams

• -ast, AST, ATS, S. A. T., S.A.T., SAT, STA, Sat, Sat., Sta, Sta., TSA, as't, ast, at's, ats, sat, sat., sta

Numeral

tas

1. three

   Dios Sap, Dios Cot, Dios Espiritu Santo, tas persona, cayca Dios üeñec. (18th century catechism)

   Dios Padre, Dios Hijo, Dios Espíritu Santo. Tres personas, pero un solo Dios nomás. (translation by Bausami, 1975)

   God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Three persons but only one God.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [taːz]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [tæːz]

Noun

tas m (plural tasow)

1. father

Mutation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑs/
• Rhymes: -ɑs

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tas, tasse, from Old Dutch *tas, *tasso, compare Old English tas and English tass (from Frankish), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“pile, heap”).

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Compare Old High German tasca (modern German Tasche), Middle Low German taske, English tasse.

Etymology 3

From French tasse.

Anagrams

• sta

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French tas (“heap, mass”), from Frankish *tas (“mass”), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“heap, mow”). Akin to Middle Dutch tas, tasse (“heap, pile”) (Dutch tas), Middle Low German tas (“heap, stack of wheat or other grain, mow”), Old English tas (“heap, mow of corn or hay”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dais (“heap”), Scots dass, Welsh dâs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ/, /ta/

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Noun

tas m (plural tas)

1. heap, pile
2. (colloquial, dialectal) thing

Further reading

• “tas” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• STA

Noun

tas ?

1. cup

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ta-, from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”), part of the paradigm of *só, *séh₂, *tód (“this, that”). Cognates include Lithuanian tàs, Old Prussian stas (< *sa + *tas), Sudovian tas, Old Church Slavonic тъ (tŭ), Ukrainian and Russian тот (tot), Bulgarian тъй (tǎj), Czech and Polish ten, Sanskrit तद् (tad), Ancient Greek τό (tó), Latin iste (< *is-te, with te from *to-).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tas]

Pronoun

tas (demonstrative, distal) (proximal: šis)

1. (used as a determiner) that

   kur ir tas zirgs? ― where is that horse?

   kur ir tā vista? ― where is that chicken?

   kur ir tas vecais koks? ― where is that old tree?

   to dienu es ļoti labi atceros ― that day I remember very well

   tai vietā mēs esam jau bijuši ― to that place we have already been

   ko tu lasi tajās jaunajās grāmatas? ― what are you reading in those new books?

2. (used as a pronoun) that, that one

   tas ir zirgs ― that is a horse

   tā ir vista ― that is a chicken

   tas ir mans tēvs ― that (one) is my father

   tā ir mana māte ― that (one) is my mother

   tie ir mani bērni ― those (ones) are my children

   tās ir manas meitas ― those (ones) are my daughters

References

Pronoun

tas m (plural: tie)

1. (demonstrative) that

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Latvian tase. Ultimately from French tasse.

Noun

tas

1. cup, teacup
2. a serving of tea or coffee

Verb

tas

1. passive of ta

Pronoun

tas

1. those (which are female)

Noun

tȁs m (Cyrillic spelling та̏с)

1. cymbal
2. the plate part of a traditional balance or scale

See also

• cimbal
• cimbalo

Noun

tas m (plural tas)

1. small anvil

Verb

tas

1. infinitive passive of ta.
2. present tense passive of ta.

Noun

tas

1. stone (Anglicized spelling)