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tei

See also: Tei, TEI, Téi, tēi, and tʼéí

Brooke's Point Palawano

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Etymology

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

Noun

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tei

  1. feces; manure

Chang

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Noun

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tei

  1. water

References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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

  1. Second-person singular possessive determiner; your

Pronoun

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

  1. Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours

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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

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  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Friulian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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tei m

  1. lime tree, linden

Ido

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Noun

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tei

  1. plural of teo

Japanese

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Romanization

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tei

  1. Rōmaji transcription of てい

Latgalian

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Etymology

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Akin to Latvian tie and Lithuanian tie.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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tei

  1. that (feminine)

Declension

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

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

References

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

Livonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *täi.

Noun

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tei

  1. louse

Declension

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Declension of tei (17)
singular (ikšlug) plural (pǟgiņlug)
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
teis 		tēši
elative (elatīv) teiõst
teist 		tēšti

Mandarin

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Romanization

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tei

  1. Nonstandard spelling of tēi.

Usage notes

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  • 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

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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tei

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

Etymology 2

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Pronoun

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tei

  1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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tei

  1. imperative of teia

Obokuitai

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Noun

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tei

  1. child

Further reading

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Old French

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Pronoun

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tei

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of toi
    • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou‎[2]:
      Li Angles Dex li respundi: Tais tei
      The Angel of God said to him: shut up

Romanian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tei m (plural tei)

  1. linden tree

Declension

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

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Samoan

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Noun

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tei

  1. younger relative

Scots

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Noun

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tei (plural teis)

  1. (Southern Scots) tea

Tobati

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Numeral

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tei

  1. one

References

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

Tolomako

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *bei.

Noun

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tei

  1. water

References

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

Welsh

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Etymology

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Borrowing from English tie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tei m or f (plural teis)

  1. necktie

Mutation

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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.

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