different between tey vs tej

English

Etymology

Derived from Middle English teies, teyse, taken as a plural, from Anglo-Norman teice, from Old French teise, toise.

Noun

tey (plural teys)

1. (historical) An English measure of length for rope, perhaps equivalent to the fathom.

Anagrams

• -ety, Tye, ety, t'ye, tye, yet

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??i]

Pronoun

tey n pl

1. they

Declension

Kayapó

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [t???x]

Noun

tey

1. stinger
2. bird tail

Yurok

Noun

tey

1. brother-in-law

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