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English
Noun
tsien (plural tsien)
- Synonym of mace (“old Chinese unit of weight”)
Anagrams
- Tiens, set in, -stein, Tines, senti, nites, set-in, snite, inset, sient, stein, tsine, Stein, tines, neist
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian tiān, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.
Pronunciation
Numeral
tsien
- ten
Further reading
- “tsien”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011