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tei

tei

See also: Téi, tēi, te'i, and tʼéí

Chang

Noun

tei

  1. water

References

  • Walter Thomas French, Northern Naga: A Tibeto-Burman Mesolanguage, volume 2 (1983), page 567: Ph yuŋ le, Ch tei la 'thirsty' (Ph yuŋ/Ch tei = 'water')

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin tilia, changed into a masculine. Compare Italian tiglio, Romanian tei, Catalan tell.

Noun

tei m

  1. lime tree, linden

Ido

Noun

tei

  1. plural of teo

Japanese

Romanization

tei

  1. rōmaji reading of てい

Lojban

Rafsi

tei

  1. rafsi of temci.

Old French

Pronoun

tei

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of toi
    • circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
      Li Angles Dex li respundi: Tais tei
      The Angel of God said to him: shut up

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tilia, turned masculine in assimilation to other tree names, or through a Vulgar Latin root *tilius. Compare Italian tiglio.

Noun

tei m (plural tei)

  1. lime tree
  2. linden

Declension

Derived terms

  • teios

Samoan

Noun

tei

  1. younger relative

Scots

Noun

tei (plural teis)

  1. (South Scots) tea

Tobati

Numeral

tei

  1. one

Reference

  • Mark Donohue, Tobati, in John Lynch, Malcolm Ross, Terry Crowley, The Oceanic Languages (Curzon Press, Londres, 2002)

Tolomako

Noun

tei

  1. water

Reference

  • Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976), page 311