tej
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Amharic ጠጀ (ṭäǧä, “honey wine, mead”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tej (countable and uncountable, plural tej)
, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 49:
- She smells the mingling odors of sweat and tej inside the hot room.
Further reading
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *tai e, a parallel formation to tëhu.
Adverb
tej
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “tej”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 451
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowing from an Iranian language, compare Ossetian дӕйын (dæjyn, “to suck”), Middle Persian (dāyag, “nurse”), Persian دایه (dâye, “nurse”), Northern Kurdish da (“mother”), Sanskrit धयति (dhayati, “to suck, drink”). Cognate also with old Southern Mansi -тай (-taj) (in сыртай (syrtaj, “milk”)), both possibly via Proto-Ugric *täjɜ. The earlier nominative was té, lost in favor of the oblique stem.
Pronunciation
Noun
tej (countable and uncountable, plural tejek)
- milk (a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young)
- milk (a white or whitish liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans)
- (in compound words) dairy
- tejgazdaság ― dairy farm
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tej | tejek |
| accusative | tejet | tejeket |
| dative | tejnek | tejeknek |
| instrumental | tejjel | tejekkel |
| causal-final | tejért | tejekért |
| translative | tejjé | tejekké |
| terminative | tejig | tejekig |
| essive-formal | tejként | tejekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | tejben | tejekben |
| superessive | tejen | tejeken |
| adessive | tejnél | tejeknél |
| illative | tejbe | tejekbe |
| sublative | tejre | tejekre |
| allative | tejhez | tejekhez |
| elative | tejből | tejekből |
| delative | tejről | tejekről |
| ablative | tejtől | tejektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
tejé | tejeké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
tejéi | tejekéi |
| Possessive forms of tej | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | tejem | tejeim |
| 2nd person sing. | tejed | tejeid |
| 3rd person sing. | teje | tejei |
| 1st person plural | tejünk | tejeink |
| 2nd person plural | tejetek | tejeitek |
| 3rd person plural | tejük | tejeik |
Derived terms
See also
References
- ^ Katz, Hartmut. 1991. "Altsüdwogulisches". — Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 50, pp. 81–91.
Further reading
- tej in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Anagrams
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from German Tee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).
Noun
tej m inan
Declension
Synonyms
- čaj (literary)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Determiner
tej
- inflection of ten:
Etymology 3
Noun
tej m inan
- The name of the Latin-script letter t.
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) a, bej, cej, čet, ćej, dej, ej, ět, ef, gej, ha, cha, i, jot, ka, eł, el, em, en, ejn, o, pej, er, ejŕ, es, eš, śej, tej, u, wej, y, zet, žet, źej
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronoun
tej f
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronoun
tej
- (Poznań, colloquial) you, the second person singular pronoun
Further reading
- tej in Polish dictionaries at PWN