tej

• tedge, tedje, tedj

Borrowed from Amharic ጠጀ (ṭäǧä, “honey wine, mead”).

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tej (countable and uncountable, plural tej)

1. A style of mead or honey wine common to Ethiopia and Eritrea.
   • 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 49:

     She smells the mingling odors of sweat and tej inside the hot room.

• tej on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Jet, jet

From Proto-Albanian *tai e, a parallel formation to tëhu.^[1]

tej

1. far
2. beyond

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.^[1] The earlier nominative was té, lost in favor of the oblique stem.

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• Rhymes: -ɛj

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tejek)

1. milk (a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young)
2. milk (a white or whitish liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans)
3. (in compound words) dairy

   tejgazdaság ― dairy farm

• 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

• ejt

• IPA^(key): /tɛj/,

Borrowed from German Tee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

tej m inan

1. tea

• čaj (literary)

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tej

1. inflection of ten:
   1. dative/locative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

tej m inan

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

• (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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Syllabification: tej

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tej f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of ta

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tej

1. (Poznań, colloquial) you, the second person singular pronoun

• tej in Polish dictionaries at PWN