different between tew vs tej

English

Alternative forms

• tue

Etymology

From Middle English tewen, a variant of tawen (“to taw, prepare”). More at taw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tju?/, /tu?/

Noun

tew (plural tews)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A rope or chain for towing a boat.
2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A cord; a string.
3. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Trouble; worry.

Verb

tew (third-person singular simple present tews, present participle tewing, simple past and past participle tewed)

1. To tow along, as a vessel.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 12 p. 197[1]:

     By which the Danes had then their full-fraught Navies tew’d:

2. To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw.
3. (by extension) To beat; to scourge.
4. To pull about; to maul.
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)(Britain, Scotland, obsolete, dialect) To tease; to vex.
6. To work hard; to strive.

Anagrams

• ewt, wet

Cornish

Numeral

tew

1. Hard mutation of dew.
2. Mixed mutation of dew.

K'iche'

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e??/

Adjective

tew

1. cold

Noun

tew

1. cold
2. frost
3. chills

Related terms

• abäj tew (“frost; ice; snow”)
• ch’aqi’ tew (“malaria”)
• ja’ tew (“frozen”)
• kowirik r-umal tew (“to freeze”)
• q’osibal tew (“cold (illness)”)
• räx tew (“malaria”)
• saq tew (“frost; snow”)
• tewal (“coldness; chilliness”)

References

• Allen J. Christenson, K?iche-English dictionary

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (taila).

Noun

tew

1. oil

Scots

Preposition

tew

1. to

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *te?, from Proto-Celtic *tegus, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /te?u?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /t?u?/

Adjective

tew (feminine singular tew, plural tewion, equative tewed, comparative tewach, superlative tewaf)

1. thick, fat

Mutation

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