different between tej vs ted

English

Alternative forms

• tedge, tedje, tedj

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ?? (?ä?ä, “honey wine, mead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?d??]

Noun

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tej)

1. A style of mead or honey wine common to Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Further reading

• tej on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Jet, jet

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tai e, a parallel formation to tëhu.

Adverb

tej

1. far
2. beyond

References

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from an Iranian language, compare Ossetian ????? (dæjyn, “to suck”), Middle Persian [script needed] (d?yag, “nurse”), Persian ????? (dâye, “nurse”), Northern Kurdish da (“mother”), Sanskrit ???? (dhayati, “to suck, drink”). Cognate also with old southern Mansi -??? (-taj) (in ?????? (syrtaj, “milk”)), both possibly via Proto-Ugric *täj?. The earlier nominative was té, lost in favor of the oblique stem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?j]
• Rhymes: -?j

Noun

tej (plural tejek)

1. milk

Declension

Derived terms

See also

References

Further reading

• tej in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?j/, [tej]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tej m

1. tea

Declension

Synonyms

• ?aj (literary)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Determiner

tej

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?j/

Pronoun

tej f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of ta

Pronoun

tej f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of ta

Pronoun

tej

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.

Noun

ted (plural teds)

1. A teddy boy.

Etymology 2

From a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjan? (“to strew, scatter”).

Verb

ted (third-person singular simple present teds, present participle tedding, simple past and past participle tedded)

1. To spread hay for drying.
   • 2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop ?ISBN:

     Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.

Anagrams

• DET, DTE, Det, Det., EDT, ETD, det.