See also: Appendix:Variations of "te"

Asturian

Noun

 m (plural tés)

  1. tea

Betawi

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien (, tea). Doublet of sahi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /te/
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation:

Noun

  1. tea (the tea plant; Camellia sinensis)
  2. tea (the dried leaves or buds of the tea plant)
  3. tea (the drink made by infusing these leaves or buds in hot water)
    Synonym: sahi

Derived terms

  • ngeté
  • liangté

Further reading

  • Chaer, A. (2009) [1976] “té”, in Kamus dialek Jakarta [Dictionary of the Jakarta dialect], revised edition (in Indonesian), Depok: Masup Jakarta, →ISBN, page 468

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

  1. inflection of tenir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of tindre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛː]
  • Audio:(file)

Etymology 1

Noun

 n (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
  2. (archaic) tea

Etymology 2

Pronoun

  1. singular feminine genitive/dative/locative of ten

Further reading

Emilian

Etymology

From Latin te.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈte/

Pronoun

  1. you (second person singular)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /te/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophones: thé, tes

Noun

 m (plural tés)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Further reading

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ/ [ˈt̪ɛ]
  • Rhymes:
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation:

Noun

 m (plural tés)

  1. tea
    Tomar o é un costume moi inglés que os británicos trouxeron dende a India.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. the shrub Camellia sinsensis

Ghomala'

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -e

Verb

alternate of nté

  1. to remove

References

  • Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)
  • Gabriel Mba, Les extensions verbales en Ghomala' - Journal of West African Languages XXVI.1 (1996-97)

Gokana

Noun

  1. tree
  2. handle

References

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to put (food) in a container; to ladle out”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of ).

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈteː]
  • Hyphenation:
  • Rhymes: -teː

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ték
accusative tét téket
dative tének téknek
instrumental tével tékkel
causal-final téért tékért
translative tévé tékké
terminative téig tékig
essive-formal téként tékként
essive-modal
inessive tében tékben
superessive tén téken
adessive ténél téknél
illative tébe tékbe
sublative tére tékre
allative téhez tékhez
elative téből tékből
delative téről tékről
ablative tétől téktől
non-attributive
possessive – singular
téé téké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
tééi tékéi
Possessive forms of
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tém téim
2nd person sing. téd téid
3rd person sing. téje téi
1st person plural ténk téink
2nd person plural tétek téitek
3rd person plural téjük téik

See also

Further reading

  • in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰjɛː/
    Rhymes: -ɛː

Etymology 1

Noun

 n (genitive singular or tés, nominative plural )

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
Declension
Declension of (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative téið téin
accusative téið téin
dative , téi téinu téum téunum
genitive , tés tésins téa téanna

Etymology 2

Noun

 n (genitive singular or tés, no plural)

  1. supply, provision; now used only in set phrases
Declension
Declension of (sg-only neuter)
singular
indefinite definite
nominative téið
accusative téið
dative , téi téinu
genitive , tés tésins
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tee.

Noun

 n (genitive singular tés, nominative plural )

  1. (golf) tee
Declension
Declension of (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative téið téin
accusative téið téin
dative téi téinu téum téunum
genitive tés tésins téa téanna

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʲeː/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

Verb

  1. present subjunctive analytic of téigh

Etymology 2

From Old Irish intí; synchronically analyzable as t- (marker of t-prothesis) + é (him).

Pronoun

  1. only used in an té

Etymology 3

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter t/T.

See also

Mutation

Mutated forms of
radical lenition eclipsis
thé dté

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Italian

Noun

  1. misspelling of

Louisiana Creole

Alternative forms

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Probably inherited from French "étais".”)

Pronunciation

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

Particle

  1. anterior past tense marker
    To paʼlé gra. / To te pale gra.You spoke with an accent. (literally, “You had spoken thick.”)
    Si mo koné ça....If I had known that....
  2. (with stative verbs) simple past tense marker
    No gin in nòt fiy.We had another girl.
  3. (copulative, past tense) was
    Li brav.He was brave.

Usage notes

  • Followed by the long form of two-stem verbs.

Derived terms

  • (prevocalic) t'

Muong

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *tɛh; cognate with Vietnamese đẻ.

Verb

  1. (Mường Bi) to give birth to
  2. (Mường Bi) to birth

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tʲeː]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *teɸents, from the present participle of Proto-Indo-European *tep- (to be warm) (compare Latin tepēns).

Alternative forms

Adjective

  1. hot, warm (of temperature)
    Synonym: brothach
  2. lustful, wanton
  3. warm, comfortable, sheltered (of places)
  4. warm, fervent (of emotions)
  5. fierce, keen (of fights, weapons)
Declension

This adjective is one of the very few irregularly inflecting adjectives in Old Irish, when irregular comparatives and superlatives are discounted. seems to have a unique nt-stem declension, with only two forms attested that fit such a paradigm.

  • Nominative plural: téït
  • Dative plural: tétib
Descendants
  • Irish: te
  • Manx: çheh
  • Scottish Gaelic: teth

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·té

  1. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of téit

Mutation

Mutation of
radical lenition nasalization
thé
pronounced with /dʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. tea

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Preposition

  1. (Brazil) nonstandard form of até

Adverb

(not comparable)

  1. (Brazil) nonstandard form of até

Interjection

  1. (Brazil) nonstandard form of até

Romagnol

Noun

 m or f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

See also

Romansch

Alternative forms

Noun

 m

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tea

Scottish Gaelic

Pronoun

 f

  1. superseded spelling of

Spanish

Etymology

From Hokkien (). Doublet of cha. Compare Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈte/ [ˈt̪e]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification:
  • Homophone: te

Noun

 m (plural tés)

  1. tea
    Synonym: cha (Philippines)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Asturian:
  • Basque: te
  • Catalan: te
  • Galician:
  • Navajo: dééh
  • Occitan:

See also

Further reading

Tetum

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

Tlingit

Noun

  1. stone; rock

Vietnamese

Etymology

Probably an undipthongized form of toé.

Pronunciation

Verb

• (, 𪷉, )

  1. (chiefly Southern Vietnam, intransitive) to trip; to fall, to fall over
    Synonyms: ngã, bổ
  2. to sprinkle
    Synonyms: tát, vẩy
    nướcto sprinkle water

See also

Anagrams

Walloon

Pronunciation

Noun

 m (plural tés)

  1. tea

Wolof

Pronunciation

Conjunction

  1. and (used between adjectives)

See also