tei

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See also: TEI, Téi, tēi, and tʼéí

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

  1. feces; manure

Chang

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')

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tou, from Latin tuus.

Pronunciation

Determiner

tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)

  1. Second-person singular possessive determiner; your

Pronoun

tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)

  1. Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours

See also

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns
Possessee
Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
Possessor First person Singular mei miña meis miñas
Plural nosu nosa nosus nosas
Second person Singular tei túa, tu1 teis túas, tus1
Plural vosu vosa vosus vosas
Third person sei súa, su1 seis súas, sus1
  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

Friulian

Etymology

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

Noun

tei m

  1. lime tree, linden

Ido

Noun

tei

  1. plural of teo

Japanese

Romanization

tei

  1. Rōmaji transcription of てい

Latgalian

Etymology

Akin to Latvian tie and Lithuanian tie.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

tei

  1. that (feminine)

Declension

Declension of tei
singular plural
nominative tei tuos
genitive tuos tūs
dative tai tom
accusative tū tuos
locative tymā tymuos

See also

Latgalian demonstrative pronouns
proximal distal
m f m f
singular itys itei tys tei
plural itī ituos tī tuos

References

  • Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 37

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *täi.

Noun

tei

  1. louse

Declension

Declension of tei (17)
singular (ikšlug) plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv) tei teid
genitive (genitīv) tei teid
partitive (partitīv) teiõ tēḑi
dative (datīv) teiõn teidõn
instrumental (instrumentāl) teiõks teidõks
illative (illatīv) teiõ tēži
inessive (inesīv) teiõs
teis 		tēši
elative (elatīv) teiõst
teist 		tēšti

Mandarin

Romanization

tei

  1. 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

  1. Alternative form of teye (“cord, chain”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tei

  1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tei

  1. imperative of teia

Obokuitai

Noun

tei

  1. child

Further reading

Old French

Pronoun

tei

  1. (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.

Noun

tei m (plural tei)

  1. linden tree

Declension

Declension of tei
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) tei teiul (niște) tei teii
genitive/dative (unui) tei teiului (unor) tei teilor
vocative teiule teilor

Derived terms

Samoan

Noun

tei

  1. younger relative

Scots

Noun

tei (plural teis)

  1. (South Scots) tea

Tobati

Numeral

tei

  1. one

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

  1. water

References

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

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowing from English tie.

Pronunciation

Noun

tei m or f (plural teis)

  1. necktie

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
tei dei nhei thei
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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