ti

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Tigrinya.

Symbol

ti

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tigrinya.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tigrinya terms

English

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ti

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, tee

Etymology 1

Coined by English music educator Sarah Anna Glover in 1812 as an alteration of si for her solmization, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter, from Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Noun

ti (plural tis)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

Synonyms

• (music): si

Translations

seventh note of a major scale — see si

Etymology 2

From a Polynesian language, related to Hawaiian kī.

Alternative forms

• ki

Noun

ti (plural tis)

1. A good luck plant (Cordyline fruticosa), an evergreen shrub.

See also

• ti bon ange
• ti ko pek
• ti lok
• ti-tree

Anagrams

• 'it, It., IT, it, It⁺⁶, It

Abinomn

Noun

ti

1. taro

Albanian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂; modern accusative ty is from Proto-Albanian Proto-Albanian *twā from emphatic *tu̯ḗm, clitic të is from clitic *te, and ablative teje is from locative *toí + -je from meje (see unë).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ti]

Pronoun

ti (accusative ty, dative ty, ablative teje)

1. you (singular)

Declension

Forms of ti (2nd person singular)

nominative	ti
ablative	teje
	full form	clitic
accusative	ty	të
dative	ty	të
	possessive adjective	possessive pronoun
	yt	yti

See also

Albanian personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		unë	ne
2nd person		ti	ju
3rd person	m	ai	ata
	f	ajo	ato

Aromanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tē, accusative of tū. Compare Romanian te.

Pronoun

ti (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of tu)

1. (direct object) you

Related terms

• tini
• tu

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/ [ˈt̪i]

Interjection

ti

1. interjection used to call goats

Bahnar

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bahnaric *tiː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁iiʔ. Cognate with Pacoh ati, Khmer ដៃ (day), Bolyu ti⁵⁵, Riang [Lang] tiʔ¹.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/

Noun

ti

1. hand

Breton

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *tɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.

Noun

ti m

1. house

Byangsi

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• Yasuhiko Nagano, Randy J. LaPolla, New Research on Zhangzhung and Related Himalayan Languages (2001)
• Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand (1989), section Chaudangsi-Byangsi, page 161:

Chaudangsi

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand (1989), section Chaudangsi-Byangsi, page 161:

Choctaw

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː(ʔ)/
• Transcription: tii'

Noun

tī (alienable)

1. tea

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea.

Noun

ti

1. tea

Corsican

Etymology

Inherited from Latin te. Cognates include Italian te, ti and French te.

Pronoun

ti

1. thee, you (singular; both direct and indirect object)

See also

Corsican personal pronouns

			nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
singular	1st person		eiu	mi		mè
	2nd person		tù	ti		tè
	3rd person	m	ellu	li	u, l'	ellu
		f	ella		a, l'	ella
plural	1st person		noi	ci		noi
	2nd person		voi	vi		voi
	3rd person	m	elli	li	i, l'	elli
		f	elle		e, l'	elle

References

• https://infcor.adecec.net/

Czech

Etymology

Inflected form of ten or ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈcɪ]

• Audio:

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Pronoun

ti

1. they, those

   Kde jsou Pavel s Ivanou? Ti přijdou později. ― Where are Pavel and Ivana? Those two will come later.

2. to you

   Dávám ti to na opravu. ― I give it to you to repair.

Synonyms

• oni
• tobě

Related terms

• tito
• ty

Danish

Danish numbers ^(edit)

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[a], [b] ←  1	←  9	10	11  →	20  →
		1[a], [b]
Cardinal: ti     Ordinal: tiende
Danish Wikipedia article on 10

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːˀ/, [ˈtˢiˀ]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, cognate with Norwegian ti, Swedish tio, English ten, German zehn. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ (“ten”), which is also the source of Latin decem, Ancient Greek δέκα (déka).

Numeral

ti

1. ten

Derived terms

• selvtiende
• tiende
• tital
• titusinder
• tiøre
• tiår, tiårig, tiårs

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ti

1. imperative of tie

Darmiya

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• A Descriptive Grammar of Darma: An Endangered Tibeto-Burman Language (2007)

Dogrib

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Athabaskan *tuˑ.

Noun

ti

1. water
2. liquid
3. lake

References

• Tłįįchǫ yati Enįhtł'è (1996; published by the Dogrib Divisional Board of Education, Dogrib Language Centre)
• Thomas Sebeok, Native Languages of the Americas, volume 1, page 292: [Howren] notes u > i in Dogrib (ti 'water', Hare-Bearlake tu; this shift occurs also in Ingalik and Tanaina in Alaska)

Fala

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ti, from Latin tibi.

Pronoun

ti

1. Second person singular prepositional pronoun; you

See also

Fala personal pronouns

			nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
singular	first person		ei	me, -mi		mi
	second person		tú	te, -ti		ti
	third person	m	el	le, -li	uLV, oM	el
		f	ela		a	ela
plural	first person	common	nos	musL nusLV nos, -nusM		nos
		m	noshotrusM			noshotrusM
		f	noshotrasM			noshotrasM
	second person	common	vos	vusLV vos, -vusM		vos
		m	voshotrusM			voshotrusM
		f	voshotrasM			voshotrasM
	third person	m	elis	le, -li	usLV, osM	elis
		f	elas		as	elas
third person reflexive			—	se, -si		sí

Dialects:  ^L Lagarteiru   ^M Mañegu   ^V Valverdeñu

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Fijian

Noun

ti

1. tea

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

As tiistai.

Noun

ti

1. abbreviation of tiistai (“Tuesday”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English dit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/, [ˈt̪i]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification^(key): ti
• Hyphenation^(key): ti

Noun

ti

1. dit (spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code)

Declension

• not inflected

Synonyms

• piste

Derived terms

• titata
• titaus
• titari

See also

• taa (dah)

French

Etymology

From est-il (literally “is it?”). Compare Canadian French tu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Particle

ti

1. (dated, colloquial) question marker

Friulian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tē, accusative singular of tū. As an indirect object, in part from Latin tibi, dative singular of tū, through a Vulgar Latin *ti.

Pronoun

ti (second person direct object, indirect object)

1. (direct object) you
2. (indirect object) to you
3. (reflexive pronoun) yourself

Related terms

• tu

Galician

Alternative forms

• tu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tu, ti; from Latin tū. The accusative is from Latin tē; one dative form, used after a preposition, from tibi; the other dative form, from metanalysis of the contractions of te + article.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/ [ˈt̪i]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ti

Pronoun

ti (after a preposition ti, accusative te, dative che)

1. you (singular)

   Synonyms: vós, vostede, Vde.

See also

Galician personal pronouns

number	person		nominative (subject)	accusative (direct object)	dative (indirect object)	prepositional	prepositional with con	non-declining
singular	first		eu	me		min	comigo	—
	second		ti	te	che	ti	contigo	vostede
	third	m	el	o (lo, no)	lle	el	con el	—
		f	ela	a (la, na)		ela	con ela	—
plural	first		nós nosoutros m nosoutras f	nos		nós	connosco	—
	second		vós vosoutros m vosoutrasf	vos		vós	convosco	vostedes
	third	m	eles	os (los, nos)	lles	eles	con eles	—
		f	elas	as (las, nas)		elas	con elas	—
reflexive third / indefinite			—	se		si	consigo	—

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022), “ti”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ti”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ti”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ti”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Derived from French petit (“little”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

Adjective

ti

1. little

Hanunoo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/ [ˈti]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ti

Article

ti (Hanunoo spelling ᜦᜲ)

1. the one; that which

   mayad ti tawo ― the person is good

   Sintay ti mayad?

   Who is the one who is good?

   ti mga daot ― the (things which are) bad

See also

• si

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 273

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tîː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tîː]

Noun

tî m (possessed form tîn)

1. tea

   Synonym: shayi

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ti

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Uralic *te. Compare Finnish te.

Pronoun

ti

1. (personal) you guys, y'all, you all, you (second-person plural, nominative, informal form)

Declension

Declension of ti

nominative	ti
accusative	titeket
dative	nektek
instrumental	veletek
causal-final	értetek
inessive	bennetek
superessive	rajtatok
adessive	nálatok
illative	belétek
sublative	rátok
allative	hozzátok
elative	belőletek
delative	rólatok
ablative	tőletek

Coordinate terms

Hungarian personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		én	mi
2nd person	familiar	te	ti
	polite, unfamiliar	maga	maguk
	formal	ön	önök
3rd person		ő	ők

Derived terms

Note: In all these forms, ti is optional and only serves for emphasis.

• tialattatok, tiáltalatok, tielőttetek etc. (ti + a postposition with the second-person plural personal suffix; see Appendix:Hungarian postpositions)
• tinektek, tiveletek, tihozzátok etc. (ti + one of the declined forms listed in the chart above; see Appendix:Hungarian pronouns)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ti (plural tik)

2. si, a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale

   Coordinate terms: dó, ré, mi, fá, szó, lá

3. dot (the short mark, one of the two symbols used in Morse code)

Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	ti	tik
accusative	tit	tiket
dative	tinek	tiknek
instrumental	tivel	tikkel
causal-final	tiért	tikért
translative	tivé	tikké
terminative	tiig	tikig
essive-formal	tiként	tikként
essive-modal	tiül	—
inessive	tiben	tikben
superessive	tin	tiken
adessive	tinél	tiknél
illative	tibe	tikbe
sublative	tire	tikre
allative	tihez	tikhez
elative	tiből	tikből
delative	tiről	tikről
ablative	titől	tiktől
non-attributive possessive – singular	tié	tiké
non-attributive possessive – plural	tiéi	tikéi

Possessive forms of ti

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tim	tijeim (or tiim)
2nd person sing.	tid	tijeid (or tiid)
3rd person sing.	tije	tijei (or tii)
1st person plural	tink	tijeink (or tiink)
2nd person plural	titek	tijeitek (or tiitek)
3rd person plural	tijük	tijeik (or tiik)

or (to reinforce the distinction from the inflection of the personal pronoun)

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	ti	ti-k
accusative	ti-t	ti-ket
dative	ti-nek	ti-knek
instrumental	ti-vel	ti-kkel
causal-final	ti-ért	ti-kért
translative	ti-vé	ti-kké
terminative	ti-ig	ti-kig
essive-formal	ti-ként	ti-kként
essive-modal	ti-ül	—
inessive	ti-ben	ti-kben
superessive	ti-n	ti-ken
adessive	ti-nél	ti-knél
illative	ti-be	ti-kbe
sublative	ti-re	ti-kre
allative	ti-hez	ti-khez
elative	ti-ből	ti-kből
delative	ti-ről	ti-kről
ablative	ti-től	ti-ktől
non-attributive possessive – singular	ti-é	ti-ké
non-attributive possessive – plural	ti-éi	ti-kéi

Possessive forms of ti

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	ti-m	ti-jeim (or ti-im)
2nd person sing.	ti-d	ti-jeid (or ti-id)
3rd person sing.	ti-je	ti-jei (or ti-i)
1st person plural	ti-nk	ti-jeink (or ti-ink)
2nd person plural	ti-tek	ti-jeitek (or ti-itek)
3rd person plural	ti-jük	ti-jeik (or ti-ik)

Further reading

• (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

Further reading

• (you guys): ti in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (ti [solfège sign]): ti in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Iban

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiʔ/

Conjunction

ti

1. which ((relative) who, whom, what)

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

Pronoun

ti

1. alternative form of iti (“those people, those things”)

   Ti esas plu forta, ma ci plu bela. ― Those guys are stronger, but these guys are prettier.

   Yes, ma me kredas ke ti esas plu bona. ― Yes, but I think that those (things) are better.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English ti, from alteration of si, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/
• Rhymes: -ti
• Hyphenation: ti

Noun

ti

1. (music) ti (a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale)

   Synonym: si

Isoko

Alternative forms

• tị

Verb

ti

1. (auxiliary) used to express the future tense, will

   Mẹ ti nya.

   I will go.

Istriot

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tū.

Pronoun

ti

1. you (second-person singular personal pronoun)
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 29:

     Ti son la manduleîna inzucherada.

     You are the sugared almond.

Italian

Etymology 1

Derived from Latin tē (the name of the letter T).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^**/ˈti/^*
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: tì

Noun

ti f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.; tee

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin tē (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”). As a dative, in part from Latin tibi, dative of tū, through a Vulgar Latin *ti.

Alternative forms

• -ti (enclitic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/^°
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ti

Pronoun

ti

1. accusative/dative of tu; you
2. second-person singular of si; you

Usage notes

• Becomes te when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

See also

Italian personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Combined	Disjunctive	Locative	Partitive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m', -mi			me	me	—
	second	—	tu	ti, t', -ti			te	te
	third	m	lui	si2, s', -si	lo, l', -lo	gli, -gli	glie, se2	lui, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f	lei, Lei1		la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1	le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1		lei, Lei1, sé
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c', -ci			ce	noi	—
	second	—	voi, Voi4	vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4			ve	voi, Voi4
	third	m	loro, Loro1	si, s', -si	li, Li1, -li, -Li1	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1	glie, se	loro, Loro1, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f			le, Le1, -le, -Le1
1	Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
2	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3	Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language.
4	Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/^°, (traditional) /ˈti/^*
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: tì

Noun

ti m (invariable)

1. (music) ti (note)
2. (music) B (note and scale)

Further reading

• Italian grammar: Pronouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ti (nota) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Japanese

Romanization

ti

1. The katakana syllable ティ (ti) in Hepburn-like romanization.