to
Definitions
General English
- preposition showing direction or place
- preposition showing a period of time
- preposition showing time in minutes before an hour
- preposition showing a person or animal that receives something
- preposition showing a connection or relationship
Information & Library Science
- abbreviation in Internet addresses, the top-level domain for Tonga
Aviation
- acronym fortake off (written as TO)
Origin & History of “to”
To comes from a prehistoric west Germanic *tō, which also produced German zu and Dutch toe. this went back ultimately to an Indo-European *do, which also produced Russian do ‘to’. Too is historically the same word as to.
