tjå

From Old Norse þjá.

• IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰːó], [t͡ɕʰɒ́ː], [t͡ɕʰːɑ́]
  • Rhymes: -óː

tjå̄ (preterite tjådd, supine tjått)

1. (transitive) bear, endure to the end, be able to go through some difficulty

   jag tjå ä int

   I do not bear it or can not wait or suffer it to the end.

   no hwȯrk du tjå sä pȧss

   You probably have the energy to endure enough or suffer it to the end.

   hȧ du tjått hunn no tjå du rompa

   ha du tjått hunn, no kånn du fäll tjå rómpa å

   ha du tjått hunn, no jär du sä tjå rómpa

   Have you endure the dog, you can do that with the tail, that is to say; Have you endured the biggest problem, you can also bear the small, insignificant, which remains, or: have you done the most of the work, you can probably finish the little that is left.

   (The reason for the saying is to be taken from the fact that, the one who has flayed the whole dog, probably he is able also to skin the tail as well.)

• tjåk (“work, go slowly and painfully, bore”)
• tjånk (“impatience, cheek, quarrel, enmity”)

• Stenberg, Pehr, Widmark, Gusten, “tjå v tjå̄”, in Ordbok över Umemålet [Dictionary of the Umeå speech], →ISBN, page 135
• Rietz, Johan Ernst, “TJÅ”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 741