taak
Antigua and Barbuda Creole English
Noun
taak
Verb
taak
Dutch
Etymology
16th century, from Picard take, from Old Northern French tasque, variant of Old French tasche, from Vulgar Latin tasca, from older taxa, deverbal from Latin taxare. Cognate with English task, French tâche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taːk/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: taak
- Rhymes: -aːk
Noun
taak f (plural taken, diminutive taakje n)
Derived terms
- taakbalk
- taakeheer
- takenpakket
Descendants
Jamaican Creole
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaːk/
Verb
taak
- to talk, to speak
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Aks 15:13:
- Wen dem don taak, Jiemz taak op an se, “Breda unu lisn tu mi
- When they finished [speaking], James spoke up. “Brothers,” he said, “listen to me
- 2016, Sylvia Gilfillian, The Road to Timnath: Di Ruod Tu Timnat, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
- Me know wa me a taak bout because wan Sunday afternoon me had to mek dat choice, and is not like me get a letter in di mail dat give me a waanin ahead a time
- I know what I'm talking about because on Sunday afternoon, I had to make that choice and it wasn't like I got a letter in the mail that gave me warning ahead of time
Further reading
Scots
Verb
taak
Sundanese
Verb
taak (Sundanese script ᮒᮃᮊ᮪)
- to stretch
Yola
Verb
taak
- alternative form of taake
- 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, pages 108[1]:
- A scalte croowe coome an taak aam awye,
- The scald-crow came and took them away,
- 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, lines 10[2]:
- Thaar's no own aal to taak uz thaar.
- There's no one at all to take us there,
References
- ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867
- ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)[1], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland