tao

tao

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yami.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Yami terms

• dao

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 道 (tao⁴).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /daʊ/, /taʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aʊ

tao

1. (Chinese philosophy and religion) Alternative letter-case form of Tao: the way of nature or way to live one's life.
   • 2021, Olof G. Lidin, From Taoism to Einstein, page 196:

     The tao of Lao Tzu was a cosmic tao, inner and unwritten, a tao of Nature, while the tao of Confucius was moral and written.

tao (usually uncountable, plural taos)

1. (by extension) The art or skill of doing something in harmony with the essential nature of the thing.

   the tao of sex... the tao of the heart... the tao of integuments...

2. (historical, obsolete) Synonym of circuit: various administrative divisions of imperial and early Republican China.

• (harmonious skill) zen

• ananke

• AOT, ATO, OTA, Ota, To'a, oat, toa

Unknown.

• Hyphenation: ta‧o
• IPA^(key): /taˈʔo/ [taˈʔo]

tào

1. to give

   Itao mo na sakuya an kuwarta.

   Just give me the money.

From Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

• Hyphenation: ta‧o
• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʔo/ [ˈta.ʔo]

táo

1. Alternative form of tawo

From Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

tao

1. person; human

From Chinese 道 (dào).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑo/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑo
• Hyphenation^(key): tao

tao

1. tao

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑoˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝o̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑo
• Hyphenation^(key): tao

tao

1. inflection of takoa:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

• oat, ota

tao m (plural taos)

1. (philosophy) Tao

• “tao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tao

1. thorn, splinter

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

táo

1. man; person

táo

1. to be born

táo

1. to look after or guard the house

taó

1. (Hiniráya, Binukídnon) to give; to donate; to make a present of

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒoː]
• Hyphenation: tao
• Rhymes: -oː

Borrowed from Mandarin 道 (dào, “way, path”).

tao

1. tao

Inflection of tao
	singular	plural
nominative	tao	taók
accusative	taót	taókat
dative	taónak	taóknak
instrumental	taóval	taókkal
causal-final	taóért	taókért
translative	taóvá	taókká
terminative	taóig	taókig
essive-formal	taoként	taókként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	taóban	taókban
superessive	taón	taókon
adessive	taónál	taóknál
illative	taóba	taókba
sublative	taóra	taókra
allative	taóhoz	taókhoz
elative	taóból	taókból
delative	taóról	taókról
ablative	taótól	taóktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	taóé	taóké
non-attributive possessive - plural	taóéi	taókéi

Possessive forms of tao
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	taóm	taóim
2nd person sing.	taód	taóid
3rd person sing.	taója	taói
1st person plural	taónk	taóink
2nd person plural	taótok	taóitok
3rd person plural	taójuk	taóik

• taoista
• taoizmus

Abbreviation from the name of the act^[1] on társasági adó és osztalékadó (“corporate tax and dividend tax”).

tao

1. Acronym of társasági adó és osztalékadó.

Inflection of tao
	singular	plural
nominative	tao	taók
accusative	taót	taókat
dative	taónak	taóknak
instrumental	taóval	taókkal
causal-final	taóért	taókért
translative	taóvá	taókká
terminative	taóig	taókig
essive-formal	taoként	taókként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	taóban	taókban
superessive	taón	taókon
adessive	taónál	taóknál
illative	taóba	taókba
sublative	taóra	taókra
allative	taóhoz	taókhoz
elative	taóból	taókból
delative	taóról	taókról
ablative	taótól	taóktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	taóé	taóké
non-attributive possessive - plural	taóéi	taókéi

Possessive forms of tao
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	taóm	taóim
2nd person sing.	taód	taóid
3rd person sing.	taója	taói
1st person plural	taónk	taóink
2nd person plural	taótok	taóitok
3rd person plural	taójuk	taóik

• taózás
• taózik

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, Proto-Austronesian *Cau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʔo/, [ˈtaː.ʔo], [ˈtaː.ʔu]
• Hyphenation: ta‧o

tao (plural tattao)

1. human; human being; person; man
2. people
3. individual

tao

1. Alternative form of datao: indefinite pronoun usually referring to the speaker

• dao

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese 道 (Dào, literally “the Way”) or (dào, "circuit").

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.o/
• Rhymes: -ao
• Hyphenation: tà‧o

tao m (invariable)

1. (philosophy) Tao

• taoismo
• taoista

• -ato

tao

1. Rōmaji transcription of たお

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀuq. Compare Indonesian taruh.

• IPA^(key): [to]

tao

1. act, action
2. preparation

tao

1. to do
2. to prepare, arm, take precautions

	Focus (Voice)
Agent (Active)	man-form: manao
	mi-form: mitao
	om-form: --
Patient (Passive)	--
	alternate: --
	a-form: atao
	voa-form: voatao
	tafa-form: --
Goal (Relative)	an-form: anaovana
	i-form: itaovana

tao (tao⁵／tao⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄊㄠ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 萄

tao

1. Nonstandard spelling of tāo.
2. Nonstandard spelling of táo.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǎo.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tào.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

tao

1. spear

Borrowed from Mandarin 道.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧o

tao n (indeclinable)

1. (philosophy, Taoism) Tao (Chinese philosophical term)

   Synonym: dao

• tao in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French tao or English tao.

tao n (uncountable)

1. tao

tao

1. spear

• Audio (Kenya):

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tao (ma class, plural matao)

1. arch

• tauo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• tau — obsolete
• tawo — now dialectal, Marinduque, Rizal

From earlier tawo, from Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Cognate with Ilocano tao, Cebuano tawo, Thao caw, Tsou cou, and Motu tau.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtaʔo/ [ˈt̪aː.ʔo] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -aʔo
  • IPA^(key): /taˈʔo/ [t̪ɐˈʔo] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ta‧o

tao (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜂ)

1. human; human being; person; man
2. (colloquial) people
3. faces of a coin
4. (games) heads (in heads or tails)

   Synonym: tihaya

   Antonyms: ibon, taob

5. (colloquial) husband
6. person left alone in a place as a guard or caretaker (when others are away)

   Synonyms: bantay, tanod

taó (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜂ)

1. (obsolete) mortal; deadly; fatal

   Synonyms: nakamamatay, mortal, (archaic) palana

• tumao

• “tao”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Cau”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• (North Central Vietnam) tau
• (South Central Vietnam) ta
• (abbreviation) t

From Proto-Vietic *soː (“I; me”). Cognate with Thavung โซว.

There are 1st person single pronouns in Northern Austroasiatic branches with back vocalism and null-initial such as Mang ʔuː⁴, Khmu [Cuang] ʔoʔ, Riang [Sak] ʔoʔ¹, Pnar o. However, the only case of competing *s- vs. null-onset in Vietic is Proto-Vietic *suh ~ *ʔuh (“nest”), which gave rise to Vietnamese tổ and ổ respectively.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [taːw˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [taːw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [taːw˧˧]

tao • (蚤, 騷)

1. (impolite, familiar, disrespectful or hostile) I/me

   Antonyms: mày, mi

• toa

From Proto-Philippine *tau, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau, from Proto-Austronesian *Cau. Compare Ibatan tawo, Tagalog tao, Ilocano tao.

• Hyphenation: ta‧o

tao

1. person; human

• → English: Tao
• → Mandarin: 達悟／达悟 (Dáwù)

• Rau, Der-Hwa Victoria 何德華, Dong, Maa-Neu 董瑪女 (2018) 臺灣南島語言叢書(14):達悟語 - 語法概論 [Taiwan Austronesian Languages Series (14): Tao language - Introduction to Grammar]‎^[1], New Taipei City: 原住民族委員會, →ISBN, archived from the original on 4 November 2021, page 8
• Dong, Maa-Neu 董瑪女, Rau, Der-Hwa Victoria 何德華, Chang, Ann Hui-Huan 張惠環, editors (2012), 達悟語詞典 Yami (Tao) Dictionary‎^[2], Taipei: 國立臺灣大學出版中心 [National Taiwan University Press], →ISBN, page 238
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Cau”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI