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tee
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?/
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophones: T, te, tea, ti
Etymology 1
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).
Noun
tee (plural tees)
- The name of the Latin-script letter T.
- 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant
- They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.
- 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant
- Something shaped like the letter T.
- Hyponyms: tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed
- (clothing) T-shirt.
Derived terms
- teevee
Translations
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Etymology 2
From Middle English teen, from Old English t?on (“to pull, tug, draw, drag, entice, allure, induce, lead, bring, rear, educate, attract, arrogate, bring forth, produce, restrain, betake oneself to, go, roam”), from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan (“to pull, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhan? (“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).
Verb
tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past teed or tow, past participle teed or town)
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw; lead.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To draw away; go; proceed.
Related terms
- betee
- fortee
- tow
- tug
- wanton
Etymology 3
First attested in the 17th century as teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.
Noun
tee (plural tees)
- (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
- (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
- (curling) The target area of a curling rink
- The mark at which players aim in quoits.
Derived terms
- tee ball
- tee off
- tee on
- tee up
Translations
Verb
tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)
- (golf) To place a ball on a tee
Synonyms
- tee up
References
Etymology 4
Noun
tee (plural tees)
- A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.
Anagrams
- EET
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch thee.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???/
Noun
tee (uncountable)
- tea
Derived terms
- rooibostee
- teekoppie
Estonian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.
Noun
tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)
- road, way
Declension
Derived terms
- kiirtee
- maantee
- raudtee
- umbtee
Etymology 2
From German Tee, ultimately from Min Nan ? (tê).
Noun
tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)
- tea
Declension
Derived terms
- liivatee
Etymology 3
Noun
tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter T.
Etymology 4
Verb
tee
- Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
- Present connegative form of tegema.
Finnish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Swedish te, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan ? (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?te?/, [?t?e??]
- Rhymes: -e?
- Syllabification: tee
Noun
tee
- (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)
- Mene kauppaan ja osta teetä.
- Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.
- Mene kauppaan ja osta teetä.
- (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)
- Haluaisitko teetä?
- Would you like some tea?
- Haluaisitko teetä?
- (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)
- Darjeeling on intialainen tee.
- Darjeeling is a tea from India.
- Darjeeling on intialainen tee.
- (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)
- yrttitee, kamomillatee, minttutee
- herb tea, camomile tea, mint tea
- yrttitee, kamomillatee, minttutee
- (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)
Usage notes
As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie (“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a synonym for the word tee in those cases.
Declension
Synonyms
- (drink made of Camella sinensis): saikka, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)
- (variety of the tea plant): teelaatu
- (cup of tea): teekupillinen, kuppi teetä
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Latin t?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?te?/, [?t?e??]
- Rhymes: -e?
- Syllabification: tee
Noun
tee
- The name of the Latin-script letter T.
Declension
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?te??/, [?t?e??(?)]
- Rhymes: -e?
- Syllabification: tee
Verb
tee
- Present indicative connegative form of tehdä.
- Second-person singular imperative form of tehdä.
- Second-person singular imperative connegative form of tehdä.
Anagrams
- eet
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje. Cognates include Finnish tie and Estonian tee.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa, Hevaha, Soikkola) IPA(key): /?te?/
- (Saarve) IPA(key): /?ti?/ (phonemic spelling: tii)
- (Ylä-Laukaa) IPA(key): /?ti?/ (phonemic spelling: tii)
- Hyphenation: tee
Noun
tee (genitive teen, partitive teetä)
- way
- path
Declension
References
- V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 583
- Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?[4], page 171
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *t?a, from Proto-Germanic *taihw?.
Noun
têe f
- toe
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
- Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)
Further reading
- “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i?/
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophone: ti
Etymology
From English tee.
Noun
tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-er, definite plural tee-ene)
- (golf) tee
- (golf) peg
References
- “tee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i?/
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophone: ti
Etymology
From English tee.
Noun
tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-ar, definite plural tee-ane)
- (golf) tee
- (golf) peg
References
- “tee” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- ete
Old Irish
Adjective
teë
- Alternative spelling of té
Mutation
Tetum
Verb
tee
- to defecate
Tiri
Noun
tee
- tea
References
- Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar
Votic
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *tee.
Noun
tee (genitive tee, partitive [please provide])
- way, road
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References
- "tee" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat
Võro
Noun
tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter T.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
West Frisian
Etymology
Borrowing from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Min Nan ? (tê).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?/
Noun
tee c (no plural)
- tea
Further reading
- “tee”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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tepe
English
Etymology
From Turkish tepe.
Noun
tepe (plural tepes)
- (archaeology) A hill, a tell.
References
Anagrams
- PETE, Peet, Pete, teep
Latin
Verb
tep?
- second-person singular present active imperative of tepe?
Olo
Noun
tepe
- water
References
- transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66
Ometepec Nahuatl
Noun
tepe
- mountain.
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
tepe (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- third-person singular present of tepsti
Swahili
Etymology
From English tape.
Pronunciation
Noun
tepe (n class, plural tepe)
- braid, tape
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ???? (tepe, “crown of the head, apex, summit, mountain peak, hill”), from Proto-Turkic *tepö, *töpö (“hill, top; top of head”). Cognate with Old Turkic ????????????????? (töpü, “height”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (töpü, “top of head”), Karakhanid [script needed] (töpü, “summit of a mountain, hill, crown of a head”), Yakut ???? (töbö, “top, summit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?p?/
- Hyphenation: te?pe
Noun
tepe (definite accusative tepeyi, plural tepeler)
- hill
- top, peak
- apex, vertex
- crest, crown
Declension
Related terms
- tepeli
- tepesiz
- tepelik
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) , “töpü:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 436
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