tee

See also: Tee, teè, and têe

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).

Noun

tee (plural tees)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
  2. Something shaped like the letter T. Found in compounds such as tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed, tee pipe fitting (“T-splitter”), tee computing command...
    angles and tees
  3. T-shirt
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Etymology 2

From Middle English teen, from Old English tēon (“to pull, tug, draw, drag, entice, allure, induce, lead, bring, rear, educate, attract, arrogate, bring forth, produce, restrain, betake oneself to, go, roam”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tja (“to pull, draw”), Low German teen (“to draw, pull”), German ziehen (“to draw, pull, drag”), Latin dūcō (“draw, pull, lead”) and Albanian nduk (“to draw (out), pull up, pluck”).

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past teed or tow, past participle teed or town)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; lead.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To draw away; go; proceed.
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Etymology 3

First attested in the 17th century with the form teaz.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

  1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
  2. (golf, baseball) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is hit.
  3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
  4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.
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Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

  1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee
    • 1909, Walter J. Travis, Practical Golf‎:
      If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.
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Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

  1. road, way
Declension
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Etymology 2

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

  1. tea
Declension
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Etymology 3

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

Etymology 4

Verb

tee

  1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
  2. Present connegative form of tegema.

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteː/
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation: tee

Etymology 1

From Swedish te, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Noun

tee

  1. (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)
    Mene kauppaan ja osta teetä.
    Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.
  2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)
    Haluaisitko teetä?
    Would you like some tea?
  3. (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)
    Darjeeling on intialainen tee.
    Darjeeling is a tea from India.
  4. (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)
    yrttitee, kamomillatee, minttutee
    herb tea, camomile tea, mint tea
  5. (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)
Usage notes

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie (“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a synonym for the word tee in those cases.

Declension
Inflection of tee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative tee teet
genitive teen teiden
teitten
partitive teetä teitä
illative teehen teihin
singular plural
nominative tee teet
accusative nom. tee teet
gen. teen
genitive teen teiden
teitten
partitive teetä teitä
inessive teessä teissä
elative teestä teistä
illative teehen teihin
adessive teellä teillä
ablative teeltä teiltä
allative teelle teille
essive teenä teinä
translative teeksi teiksi
instructive — tein
abessive teettä teittä
comitative — teineen
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Etymology 2

Noun

tee

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
Declension
Inflection of tee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative tee teet
genitive teen teiden
teitten
partitive teetä teitä
illative teehen teihin
singular plural
nominative tee teet
accusative nom. tee teet
gen. teen
genitive teen teiden
teitten
partitive teetä teitä
inessive teessä teissä
elative teestä teistä
illative teehen teihin
adessive teellä teillä
ablative teeltä teiltä
allative teelle teille
essive teenä teinä
translative teeksi teiksi
instructive — tein
abessive teettä teittä
comitative — teineen

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteːˣ/
  • Hyphenation: tee

Verb

tee

  1. Present indicative connegative form of tehdä.
  2. Second-person singular imperative form of tehdä.
  3. Second-person singular imperative connegative form of tehdä.

Ingrian

Noun

tee

  1. way

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ.

Noun

têe f

  1. toe

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
  • Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

Further reading

  • “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Old Irish

Adjective

teë

  1. Alternative spelling of té

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
teë theë teë
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Tetum

Verb

tee

  1. to defecate

Tiri

Noun

tee

  1. tea

References

  • Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive [please provide])

  1. way, road

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • "tee" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

Võro

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

West Frisian

Noun

tee c

  1. tea
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