ta 1. numeral; one, a certain one, at all; just, only, eta one; used as article, a, an, ta si fou, one rock; na tasi fou, one rock; ta sala nia, a friend of his; ta si doo, anything; ta ola lau, a different canoe; ta bali aba, one hand, the other hand; e langi si suu ana ta toongi, not clothed in any clothing; ta sasina ta ai, a man's brother; ta ro ai, only two people; used with the numerals, ta ro si lio, two minds; ta ro tangale penny, two hundred pence; may precede fe, tefuana ta fe uo, every hill; ta ro fe lamua, just two doves; ni may be added, ta ni aiai, some other. S. ta'a; Rotuma ta; cf. Florida, sakai, M. L. p. 524. Wango ta M. L. p. 511.
ta 2. adv. connects, resumes narrative, and, then.
ta 3. ending of verbal noun, seen in root afuta meaning all, and used only with suff. pron.; afutagera, all of them. S. ta.
ta 4. adv. added to sui, sui ta, thereupon; follows negative langi, langi ta, or.
ta; 5. ta mone, perhaps.
taa 1. interrog. pron. what? si taa na, what is it? S. taa.
taa 2. v. i., to be bad, evil.
taala v. n., evil; ade taala, evil doing. S. ta'a.
taba with suff. ani, tabaani, v. tr., to destroy, remove. S. tapa.
tae v. tr., to lift up. S. ta'e.