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See also: Appendix:Variations of "tei"
Translingual
Etymology
Symbol
tei
See also
Brooke's Point Palawano
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi. Compare Indonesian tahi, Malagasy tay, Palauan dach and Samoan tae.
Noun
tei
Chang
Noun
tei
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')
Fala
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese *tei, from Latin tuus.
Pronunciation
Determiner
tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)
- Second-person singular possessive determiner; your
Pronoun
tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)
- Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours
See also
1 Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.
References
- Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 266
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Friulian
Etymology
From Latin tilia, changed into a masculine. Compare Italian tiglio, Romanian tei, Catalan tell.
Noun
tei m
Ido
Noun
tei
Japanese
Romanization
tei
Latgalian
Etymology
Akin to Latvian tie and Lithuanian tie.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
tei
- that (feminine)
Declension
See also
Latgalian demonstrative pronouns
References
- Nicole Nau (2011), A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 37
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Livonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *täi.
Pronunciation
Noun
tei
Declension
References
- Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “tei”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
Mandarin
Romanization
tei
- nonstandard spelling of tēi
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
tei
- alternative form of teye (“cord, chain”)
Etymology 2
Pronoun
tei
- alternative form of þei (“they”)
Mizo
Etymology
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tay.
Verb
tei
Further reading
- Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “tei”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
tei
- imperative of teia
Obokuitai
Noun
tei
Further reading
- Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)
Old French
Pronoun
tei
- (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of toi
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin tilia, turned masculine in assimilation to other tree names, or through Vulgar Latin *tilius. Compare Italian tiglio and Friulian tei.
Pronunciation
Noun
tei m (plural tei)
- linden tree
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tei”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
- Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1982), Dicționarul Limbii Române, volume 11, part 2, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 155–156
Samoan
Noun
tei
- younger relative
Scots
Noun
tei (plural teis)
Tobati
Numeral
tei
References
- Mark Donohue, Tobati, in John Lynch, Malcolm Ross, Terry Crowley, The Oceanic Languages (Curzon Press, Londres, 2002)
Tolomako
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *bei.
Noun
tei
References
- Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976), page 311
Welsh
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tei m or f (plural teis)
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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