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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

Etymology

First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

teg (plural tegs)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) a sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old

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2. (Britain, dialect, dated) a doe in its second year

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• GTE, Get, TGE, get

Cornish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Numeral

teg

1. Hard mutation of deg.
2. Mixed mutation of deg.

Etymology 2

From the same source as Welsh teg (“fair, pretty”)

Adjective

teg

1. pretty, attractive

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: te

Pronoun

teg sg

1. accusative singular of tú (“you”)

Declension

Synonyms

• tjeg (dialectal)

Derived terms

• eg elski teg (“I love you”)

Hupdë

Noun

teg

1. tree

References

• 1979, Barbara J. Moore, Gail L. Franklin, Mary L. Daniel (translator), Breves notícias da língua maku-hupda, Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 11.

Livonian

Pronoun

teg

1. nominative plural of sin?

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tèg

1. (non-standard since 1938) imperative of tegja

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?/

Noun

teg n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige)

1. Alternative form of tech

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tê??/

Noun

t?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. weight (weightlifting)
2. weight (block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object)

Declension

Synonyms

• (Croatia) úteg

Slavomolisano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tê??/

Noun

teg m

1. work, employment
   • 2010, Rino John Gliosca, “Bonifacio en Amérique”:

Declension

References

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish tegher, from Old Norse teigr.

Noun

teg c

1. a small farm field, a part of a larger field

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

teg

1. past tense of tiga.

Anagrams

• get

Welsh

Etymology

Cognate with Cornish teg; further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te??/

Adjective

teg (feminine singular teg, plural teg, equative teced, comparative tecach, superlative tecaf)

1. fair (pretty, attractive)
2. fair, just
3. impartial, unbiased

   Antonym: annheg

Derived terms

• chwarae teg

Mutation

References