tak verb (past tense tuk, tuik, past participle taen, tin, teen) take ☞ “The frost’s taen the air” “The air is very cold”- tak at get on with it • do the other thing • lump it ☞ “If tho disno like hid, thoo can just tak at”
- tae be taen to die; in olden days it was taboo to use the name of someone who had recently died “Him (or her) thit was taen” was used instead
- tae tak oot
- to take peats from the person cutting them and to set them on the bank
- (of weather) to improve
- tae tak paece to settle down ☞ “I wish that bairn wid tak paece”
- tae tak tae to start to ☞ “He tuk tae the laugheen” “He started t
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