tei

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tei"

Languages (22)

Translingual

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Brooke's Point Palawano • Chang • Fala • Friulian • Ido • Japanese • Latgalian • Livonian • Mandarin • Middle English • Mizo • Ngeq • Norwegian Nynorsk • Obokuitai • Old French • Romanian • Samoan • Scots • Tobati • Tolomako • Welsh

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Page categories

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Torricelli.

Symbol

tei

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Torricelli.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Torricelli terms

Brooke's Point Palawano

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Austronesian *Caqi

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi

Brooke's Point Palawano tei

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi. Compare Indonesian tahi, Malagasy tay, Palauan dach and Samoan tae.

Noun

tei

1. feces; manure

Chang

Noun

tei

1. water

References

• Walter Thomas French, Northern Naga: A Tibeto-Burman Mesolanguage, volume 2 (1983), page 567: Ph yuŋ le, Ch tei la 'thirsty' (Ph yuŋ/Ch tei = 'water')

Fala

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *téwe

Proto-Indo-European *tewós

Proto-Italic *towosder.

Latin tuus

Old Galician-Portuguese *tei

Fala tei

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *tei, from Latin tuus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtei̯/
• Rhymes: -ei̯
• Syllabification: tei

Determiner

tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)

1. Second-person singular possessive determiner; your

Pronoun

tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)

1. Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours

See also

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns

			possessee
			singular		plural
			masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
possessor	first person	singular	mei	miña	meis	miñas
		plural	nosu	nosa	nosus	nosas
	second person	singular	tei	túa, tu1	teis	túas, tus1
		plural	vosu	vosa	vosus	vosas
	third person		sei	súa, su1	seis	súas, sus1

¹ Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 266

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin tilia, changed into a masculine. Compare Italian tiglio, Romanian tei, Catalan tell.

Noun

tei m

1. lime tree, linden

Ido

Noun

tei

1. plural of teo

Japanese

Romanization

tei

1. Rōmaji transcription of てい

Latgalian

Etymology

Akin to Latvian tie and Lithuanian tie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtʲɛ̀i̯]
• Hyphenation: tei

Pronoun

tei

1. that (feminine)

Declension

Declension of tei

	singular	plural
nominative	tei	tuos
genitive	tuos	tūs
dative	tai	tom
accusative	tū	tuos
locative	tymā	tymuos

See also

Latgalian demonstrative pronouns

	proximal		distal
	m	f	m	f
singular	itys	itei	tys	tei
plural	itī	ituos	tī	tuos

References

• Nicole Nau (2011), A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 37

Livonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtei/, [ˈte̯iˑ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *täi.

Noun

tei

1. louse

Declension

Declension of tei (17)

	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	tei	teid
genitive (genitīv)	tei	teid
partitive (partitīv)	teiõ	tēḑi
dative (datīv)	teiõn	teidõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	teiõks	teidõks
illative (illatīv)	teiõ	tēži
inessive (inesīv)	teiõs	tēši
elative (elatīv)	teiõst	tēšti

References

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “tei”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Etymology 2

Verb

tei

1. first/third-person singular indicative past of tī’edõ

Mandarin

Romanization

tei

1. nonstandard spelling of tēi

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

tei

1. alternative form of teye (“cord, chain”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tei

1. alternative form of þei (“they”)

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tay.

Verb

tei

1. to adze, hew, trim

Further reading

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “tei”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

Ngeq

Noun

tei

1. hand

References

• Ron Smith (1970), Ngeq Rhyme Dictionary‎^[2], Summer Institute of Linguistics
• David Thomas (1978-1979), Ngeq Wordlist‎^[3]

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tei

1. imperative of teia

Obokuitai

Noun

tei

1. child

Further reading

• Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

Old French

Pronoun

tei

1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of toi
   • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou‎^[4]:

     Li Angles Dex li respundi: Tais tei

     The Angel of God said to him: shut up

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tilia, turned masculine in assimilation to other tree names, or through Vulgar Latin *tilius. Compare Italian tiglio and Friulian tei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtej/
• Rhymes: -ej

Noun

tei m (plural tei)

1. linden tree

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tei	teiul	tei	teii
genitive-dative	tei	teiului	tei	teilor
vocative	teiule		teilor

Derived terms

• Poiana Teiului
• teios

Further reading

• “tei”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1982), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[5], volume 11, part 2, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 155–156

Samoan

Noun

tei

1. younger sibling

References

• Milner, G.B. (1993), Samoan Dictionary, Auckland: Polynesian Press, →ISBN, page 260

Scots

Noun

tei (plural teis)

1. (Southern Scots) tea

Tobati

Tobati cardinal numbers

	1	2  >
Cardinal : tei

Etymology

Compare Sobei tes.

Numeral

tei

1. one

   ic tei ― one fish

References

• Mark Donohue, Tobati, in John Lynch, Malcolm Ross, Terry Crowley, The Oceanic Languages (Curzon Press, Londres, 2002)

Tolomako

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *bei.

Noun

tei

1. water

References

• Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976), page 311

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowing from English tie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtei̯/
• Rhymes: -ei̯

Noun

tei m or f (plural teis)

1. necktie

Mutation

Mutated forms of tei

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tei	dei	nhei	thei

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