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tej

tej

English

A berele glass containing unfiltered tej.

Alternative forms

Noun

tej (plural tej)

  1. A style of mead or honey wine common to Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Albanian

Adverb

tej

  1. beyond

Hungarian

Etymology

From an Iranian language, compare Ossetian дӕйын (dæjyn, to suck), Middle Persian nurse (dāyag), Persian دایه (dâye, nurse), Kurdish da (mother). Cognate with Sanskrit धयति (dhayati, to suck, drink)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛj]

Noun

tej (plural tejek)

  1. milk

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative tej tejek
accusative tejet tejeket
dative tejnek tejeknek
instrumental tejjel tejekkel
causal-final tejért tejekért
translative tejjé tejekké
terminative tejig tejekig
essive-formal tejként tejekként
essive-modal
inessive tejben tejekben
superessive tejen tejeken
adessive tejnél tejeknél
illative tejbe tejekbe
sublative tejre tejekre
allative tejhez tejekhez
elative tejből tejekből
delative tejről tejekről
ablative tejtől tejektől
Possessive forms of tej
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tejem tejeim
2nd person sing. tejed tejeid
3rd person sing. teje tejei
1st person plural tejünk tejeink
2nd person plural tejetek tejeitek
3rd person plural tejük tejeik

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Lower Sorbian

tej

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tej/

Etymology 1

Borrowing from German Tee, from Min Nan (), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (leaf, tea).

Noun

tej m

  1. tea
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Determiner

tej

  1. inflection of ten:
    1. dative and locative feminine singular
    2. nominative and accusative dual

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t̪ɛj]

Pronoun

tej

  1. genitive singular of ta
  2. dative singular of ta
  3. locative singular of ta