ti

ti

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tigrinya.

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• IPA^(key): /tiː/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, tee

Coined by English music educator Sarah Anna Glover in 1812 as an alteration of si for her solmization, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter, from Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

ti (plural tis)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

• (music): si

From a Polynesian language, related to Hawaiian kī.

• ki

ti (plural tis)

1. The good luck plant (Cordyline fruticosa), an evergreen shrub.

• ti bon ange
• ti-tree

• 'it, It., IT, it, It⁺⁶, It

ti

1. taro

From Proto-Albanian *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂; modern accusative ty is from Proto-Albanian Proto-Albanian *twā from emphatic *tu̯ḗm, clitic të is from clitic *te, and ablative teje is from locative *toí + -je from meje (see unë).

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ti (accusative ty, dative ty, ablative teje)

1. you (singular)

From Latin tē, accusative of tū. Compare Romanian te.

ti (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of tu)

1. (direct object) you

• tini
• tu

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/,

ti

1. interjection used to call goats

From Proto-Bahnaric *tiː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁iiʔ. Cognate with Pacoh ati, Khmer ដៃ (day), Bolyu ti⁵⁵, Riang tiʔ¹.

• IPA^(key): /tiː/

ti

1. hand

From Proto-Brythonic *tɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.

ti m

1. house

ti

1. water

• Yasuhiko Nagano, Randy J. LaPolla, New Research on Zhangzhung and Related Himalayan Languages (2001)
• Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand (1989), section Chaudangsi-Byangsi, page 161:

ti

1. water

• Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand (1989), section Chaudangsi-Byangsi, page 161:

Borrowed from English tea.

• IPA^(key): /tiː(ʔ)/
• Transcription: tii'

tī (alienable)

1. tea

Borrowed from English tea.

ti

1. tea

From Latin te. Cognates include Italian te, ti and French te.

ti

1. thee, you (singular; both direct and indirect object)

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Inflected form of ten or ty.

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ti

1. they, those

   Kde jsou Pavel s Ivanou? Ti přijdou později. ― Where are Pavel and Ivana? Those two will come later.

2. to you

   Dávám ti to na opravu. ― I give it to you to repair.

• oni
• tobě

• IPA^(key): /tiːˀ/,

From Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, cognate with Norwegian ti, Swedish tio, English ten, German zehn. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ (“ten”), which is also the source of Latin decem, Ancient Greek δέκα (déka).

ti

1. ten

• tiende
• tital
• selvtiende
• titusinder
• tiår, tiårig, tiårs
• tiøre

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ti

1. imperative of tie

ti

1. water

• A Descriptive Grammar of Darma: An Endangered Tibeto-Burman Language (2007)

From Proto-Athabaskan *tuˑ.

ti

1. water
2. liquid
3. lake

• Tłįįchǫ yati Enįhtł'è (1996; published by the Dogrib Divisional Board of Education, Dogrib Language Centre)
• Thomas Sebeok, Native Languages of the Americas, volume 1, page 292: notes u > i in Dogrib (ti 'water', Hare-Bearlake tu; this shift occurs also in Ingalik and Tanaina in Alaska)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ti, from Latin tibi.

ti

1. Second person singular prepositional pronoun; you

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

ti

1. tea

As tiistai.

ti

1. Abbreviation of tiistai (“Tuesday”).

Borrowed from English dit.

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/,
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation^(key): ti

ti

1. dit (spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code)

• not inflected

• piste

• titata
• titaus
• titari

• taa (dah)

From est-il (literally “is it?”). Compare Canadian French tu.

• IPA^(key): /ti/

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ti

1. (dated, colloquial) question marker

From Latin tē, accusative singular of tū. As an indirect object, in part from Latin tibi, dative singular of tū, through a Vulgar Latin *ti.

ti (second person direct object, indirect object)

1. (direct object) you
2. (indirect object) to you
3. (reflexive pronoun) yourself

• tu

• tu

From Old Galician-Portuguese tu, ti; from Latin tū. The accusative is from Latin tē; one dative form, used after a preposition, from tibi; the other dative form, from metanalysis of the contractions of te + article.

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/
• Rhymes: -i

ti (after a preposition ti, accusative te, dative che)

1. you (singular)

   Synonyms: vós, vostede, Vde.

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ti”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ti”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ti”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ti”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From French petit (“little”).

• IPA^(key): /ti/

ti

1. little

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ti

ti (Hanunoo spelling ᜦᜲ)

1. the one; that which

   mayad ti tawo ― the person is good

   Sintay ti mayad?

   Who is the one who is good?

   ti manga daot ― the (things which are) bad

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 273

Borrowed from English tea.

• IPA^(key): /tîː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

tî m (possessed form tîn)

1. tea

   Synonym: shayi

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• Rhymes: -ti

From Proto-Uralic *te. Compare Finnish te.

ti

1. (personal) you guys, y'all, you all, you (second-person plural, nominative, informal form)

Note: In all these forms, ti is optional and only serves for emphasis.

• tialattatok, tiáltalatok, tielőttetek etc. (ti + a postposition with the second-person plural personal suffix; see Appendix:Hungarian postpositions)
• tinektek, tiveletek, tihozzátok etc. (ti + one of the declined forms listed in the chart above; see Appendix:Hungarian pronouns)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ti (plural tik)

2. si, a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale

   Coordinate terms: dó, ré, mi, fá, szó, lá

3. dot (the short mark, one of the two symbols used in Morse code)

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

or (to reinforce the distinction from the inflection of the personal pronoun)

• (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

• (you guys): ti 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
• (ti ): ti 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

• IPA^(key): /tiʔ/

ti

1. which ((relative) who, whom, what)

• IPA^(key): /ti/

ti

1. Alternative form of iti (“those people, those things”)

   Ti esas plu forta, ma ci plu bela. ― Those guys are stronger, but these guys are prettier.

   Yes, ma me kredas ke ti esas plu bona. ― Yes, but I think that those (things) are better.

Borrowed from English ti, from alteration of si, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter.

• IPA^(key): /ti/
• Rhymes: -ti
• Hyphenation: ti

ti

1. (music) ti (a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale)

   Synonym: si

From Latin tū.

ti

1. you (second-person singular personal pronoun)
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 29:

     Ti son la manduleîna inzucherada.

     You are the sugared almond.

From Latin tē (the name of the letter T).

• IPA^(key): ^**/ˈti/^*
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: tì

ti f (invariable)

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

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

From Latin tē (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”). As a dative, in part from Latin tibi, dative of tū, through a Vulgar Latin *ti.

• -ti (enclitic)

• IPA^(key): /ti/^°
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ti

ti

1. accusative/dative of tu; you
2. second-person singular of si; you

• Becomes te when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/^°, (traditional) /ˈti/^*
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: tì

ti m (invariable)

1. (music) ti (note)
2. (music) B (note and scale)

• Italian grammar: Pronouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ti (nota) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

ti

1. The katakana syllable ティ (ti) in Hepburn-like romanization.

ti

1. (negation) not^[1]

   Gũtema na kanua ti gũtema na rũhiũ

   Cutting with a mouth is not cutting with a knife.

• aca

te +‎ i

ti

1. in the (masculine plural)

ti

1. water

• English to Hakha-Chin Online Dictionary
• English to Chin (Hakha) Dictionary

ti

1. Latin spelling of თი (ti)

From Latin tē, accusative of tū (“you”), from Proto-Italic *tū (accusative *tē), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂, (accusative *twé ~ *te).

• IPA^(key): /ti/

ti

1. you (singular)

• mi
• lê
• noî, niâtri
• voî, viâtri
• lô, liâtri

ti

1. tea

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote grammar sketch (2008)

ti

1. Nonstandard spelling of tī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tì.

• 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.

ti

1. water

• Fred W. Savidge, A grammar and dictionary of the Lakher language (1908)
• marasaw.com wordlist

Borrowed from English tea, from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”). Doublet of wōja and oja.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key):
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /tˠij/
• Bender phonemes: {tiy}

ti

1. tea

• oja
• wōja

ti

1. to pour in tea

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From French été (“been”). Compare Haitian Creole te.

• IPA^(key): /t͡si/

ti (medial form ti)

1. (auxiliary) Used to indicate past tense.

• ti ape
• ti finn
• ti pou

ti

1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

From Proto-Vietic *diː ~ tiː (“to go, to walk”). Cognate with Vietnamese đi.

• IPA^(key): /ti¹/

ti

1. (Mường Bi) to go; to walk

   Da ti no đỉ?

   Where are you going?

• Nguyễn Văn Khang, Bùi Chỉ, Hoàng Văn Hành (2002) Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary)‎, Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội

From Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun (“ten”), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ (“ten”). Cognate with Icelandic tíu, Faroese tíggju, Swedish tio, Danish ti and English ten.

• Homophone: tee

ti

1. ten

• tiende

• “ti” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: tee, tid

From Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ (“ten”).

Germanic cognates include Norwegian Bokmål and Danish ti, Swedish tio, Icelandic tíu, Faroese tíggju, German zehn, Dutch tien, Saterland Frisian tjoon, English ten, and Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (taihun). Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), Irish deich, Latin decem, Lithuanian dešimt, Persian ده, Russian десять (desjatʹ), and Sanskrit दश (daśa).

ti

2. ten

• tiande
• tiend f

Alteration of si, so that every note of the solfège would begin with a different letter.

• si

ti m (definite singular ti-en, indefinite plural ti-ar, definite plural ti-ane)

2. (music) ti, a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

• (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, so (or sol), la, ti (or si), do

From uti, similarly to tu (“out of”) and tå (“of”). Compare also Dalecarlian Swedish ti (“in”).

ti

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) Alternative form of uti

   Itj glømm å rødd ette dæ! Itj lægg att nåkkå søppel ti skauen

   Don’t forget to clean up after you! Don’t leave any rubbish in the forest

2. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) Alternative form of i

   Dæ æ en vanskele tærræng å fårrå ti

   It is a difficult terrain for travelling in (it)

   E blaidd litt ti boka hass hær om dan å fann mytty rart dær

   I browsed some (pages) in his book the other day, and found a lot of strange (stuff) there

• “ti” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• it, IT, Ti

ti pl

1. your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

ti

1. Alternative form of zi

Inherited from Sanskrit त्रि (tri).

ti

1. three

ti

1. elided form of iti

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “ti”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

ti

1. water

• 1972, Paul Benedict, Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus, p. 26 (as Manchati)

• IPA^(key): /ti/

ti

1. thee, you

Possibly related to Guaraní che

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪ̀/

ti

1. I (first-person subject pronoun)
2. me (first-person object pronoun)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ti, from Latin tibi, from Proto-Indo-European *tébʰye, dative of *túh₂ (“you”).

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ti/
• Rhymes: -i

ti

1. prepositional of tu

   Dá-los-ei a ti.

   I will give them to you.

In everyday parlance, this pronoun is often replaced by tu in many Brazilian dialects that use "tu".

ti (invariable)

1. (lexicography) Initialism of transitivo indireto.

From Latin tū.

ti

1. you (singular familiar)

• IPA^(key): /ti/

From Latin tē (the name of the letter T).

ti f (invariable)

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

From Latin tē (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”). As a dative, in part from Latin tibi, dative of tū, through a Vulgar Latin *ti.

• t' (apocopic)
• -ti, -tti (enclitic)

ti

1. (reflexive pronoun) yourself

   Cumenti ti ciami? ― What's your name? (literally, “How do you call yourself?”)

2. dative of tu: to you

   Abà ti lu diggu ― Now I'll tell you. (literally, “Now I tell it to you”)

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

ti

1. (Southern Scots) to

ti

1. (Southern Scots) to

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): /tîː/

tȋ (Cyrillic spelling ти̑)

1. (in the singular) you

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ti

1. to you (clitic dative singular of tȋ (“you”))
2. you (vocative singular of tȋ (“you”))
3. (emphatic, possessive, dative) your, of yours (clitic dative singular of tȋ (“I”))

   Želiš još?! Gdje ti je granica?! ― You want more?! Where's your limit?!

   Gdje ti je auto? ― Where is your car?

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tȋ

1. masculine nominative plural of taj; those

   Tko su ti ljudi? ― Who are those people?

ti (Cyrillic spelling ти)

1. (emphatic, informal) Used to reinforce a statement that is thought to be of interest to the listener, usually referring to oneself or third parties.

   Ja ti radim i vikendom. ― I work on the weekends as well.

   On ti se odselio još davno. ― He moved away a long time ago.

• tebe

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ti.

ti

1. dative of ty

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): /tíː/

tȋ

1. you (singular); thou
2. (impersonal) one

tȋ m

1. (only used in set phrases) use of familiar personal pronouns instead of polite ones

   S svojo šefico sva prešli na ti. ― My boss and I have started to use familiar personal pronouns.

acc=1

see tȃ

• IPA^(key): /tíː/

ti

1. nominative dual feminine and neuter of tȃ
2. accusative dual feminine and neuter of tȃ
3. nominative plural masculine of tȃ

• IPA^(key): /tí/

ti

1. (stylistical) dative singular feminine of tȃ
2. (stylistical) locative singular feminine of tȃ

From English ti.

• IPA^(key): /tíː/

tȋ m inan

1. (music) ti, si

   Synonym: sȋ

Name ti is not officially recognized as a synonym of si.

acc=1

acc=1

• dialectal

acc=1

• “ti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “ti”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ti

ti (stem -ti-)

1. Jean Marie River form of tu

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 44

From Latin tibi, dative of tu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ti

ti

1. you, thee (declined form of tú used as the object of a preposition)

   ¡Felicidades a ti! ― Congratulations to you!

• “ti”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

ti

1. Romanization of 𒋾

Borrowed from English tee, the English name of the letter T/t.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ti/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ti

ti (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒ)

1. the name of the Latin-script letter T/t, in the Filipino alphabet

   Synonyms: (in the Abakada alphabet) ta, (in the Abecedario) te

• (Latin-script letter names) titik; ey, bi, si, di, i, ef, dyi, eyts, ay, dyey, key, el, em, en, enye, en dyi, o, pi, kyu, ar, es, ti, yu, vi, dobolyu, eks, way, zi

• “ti”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Proto-Northern Jê *ci (“bone”).

IPA^(key):

ti

1. bone

ti

1. water

• The Bodos in Assam: a socio-cultural study, year 2005-2006 (2007)

From English tea.

ti

1. tea