different between tej vs tel

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 1

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Abbreviation of telephone number.
2. Abbreviation of telegraph.
3. Abbreviation of telegram.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Alternative form of tell (“hill or mound”)

Anagrams

• -let, ELT, ETL, LTE, TLE, elt, let

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tellen, from Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???l]

Verb

tel (present tel, present participle telende, past participle tellende)

1. to count

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel).

Noun

tel

1. thread
2. (music) chord, string

Derived terms

• tejzë

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *t?l (“wire, string; thong; strand”). Cognate with Karakhanid ?????? (tili, “thong”), Crimean Tatar and Turkish tel, Turkmen til, Kumyk and Nogai ??? (tel), Chuvash ??? (tal, “bundle”).Alternatively, related to Armenian ??? (t?el, “thread”), either as a direct borrowing or originating from the same Iranian source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tel]

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural tell?r)

1. strand of hair
2. string
3. wire
4. telegram

5. fringe; bang; forelock
6. tie

Declension

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?té??]

Etymology 1

Particle

t?l

1. however, nonetheless

Etymology 2

Noun

t?l inan

1. first-person plural possessive singular of ?lli; (it is) our liver; the human liver.
2. first-person plural possessive plural of ?lli; (they are) our livers.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Compare Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel), Old Armenian ??? (t?el).

Noun

tel

1. wire

2. (music) chord, string

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

tel m (plural tellen, diminutive telletje n)

1. count

   De gebedssnoeren worden gebruikt om de tel niet kwijt te raken bij het reciteren of chanten.^[1] — Prayer beads are used in order to not lose count while reciting or chanting.

2. (time) second
3. a short moment

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of tellen
2. imperative of tellen

Anagrams

• Let, let

French

Etymology

From Old French tel, from Latin t?lis. Compare Spanish tal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Adjective

tel (feminine singular telle, masculine plural tels, feminine plural telles)

1. such

Derived terms

• telle mère, telle fille
• tel père, tel fils
• tel quel

Pronoun

tel ?

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

Derived terms

• tellement

Further reading

• “tel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English tel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [te?????]

Noun

tel(??) • (teru) 

1. telephone
2. telephone number

Verb

tel(??)?? • (teru suru) suru (stem tel(??)? (teru shi), past tel(??)?? (teru shita))

1. (informal) to call (contact by telephone)

Conjugation

Old French

Etymology

From Latin t?lis.

Adjective

tel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tele)

1. such a
   • circa 1050, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland (Oxford manuscript)

     Unques nuls hom tel chevaler ne vit

     Never has a man seen such a knight

Declension

Related terms

• itel

Old Norse

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of telja
2. second-person singular imperative of telja

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????????? (tel) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (taila).

Noun

tel (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)

1. oil

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têl/

Noun

t?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (obsolete) thin wire

   Ne biju se tako pobinjice, ve? se biju od tela kandžijom

2. silver or golden thread or string for sewing or embroidering
   • 1906, Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova:

     Pustila dugu kosu niz ple?a i preko grudi, a niz dugu kosu pušta se tel, blešti i treperi tel me?u crnom bujnom kosom, pa mu izgleda Zona sjajna i sve?ana kao zavetna ikona.

Declension

References

• 1957, Škalji? Abdulah, Turcizmi u narodnom govoru, Sarajevo
• 1976, ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ??????, VI. ?????, ?-? (???????), ????? ?????????? ??????, ?????? ??????, ???? ???, ???. 171

Tatar

Noun

tel

1. tongue; language

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel). See it for more.

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural teller)

1. wire
2. thread
3. string, chord

4. telegram

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of telefon.

Noun

tel

1. Abbreviation of telefon.

Declension

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Volapük

Numeral

tel

1. two

Derived terms

• telüm

West Frisian

Adverb

tel

1. (archaic) soon

Further reading

• “tel (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011