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

• aht
• hat

Eastern Cham

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 tá), 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.