tei

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')

Etymology

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

Noun

tei m

1. lime tree, linden

Noun

tei

1. plural of teo

Romanization

tei

1. Rōmaji transcription of てい

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *täi.

Noun

tei

1. louse

Pronoun

tei

1. Alternative form of þei

References

• “thei (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 May 2018.

Verb

tei

1. imperative of teia

Noun

tei

1. child

External sources

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

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

Etymology

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

Noun

tei m (plural tei)

1. lime tree
2. linden

Noun

tei

1. younger relative

Noun

tei (plural teis)

1. (South Scots) tea

Numeral

tei

1. one

Reference

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

Noun

tei

1. water

Reference

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

Etymology

Borrowing from English tie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtei̯/

Noun

tei m, f (plural teis)

1. necktie

Mutation