tay

Spelling form indicating original pronunciation of tea.

• enPR: tā, IPA^(key): /teɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

tay (plural tays)

1. (obsolete or dialect) Tea.
   • 1856 October 18, The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator, page 6:

     "[T]hen the Tulip, - ah! didn't the Tulip die hard, - he fout hard for it, even after he had a hole in his head as big as a tay cup."

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 207:

     "There's your tay set for you an' drawin' nicely this minute, Miss Ethel," called old Bridget from the hall.

• AYT, Yat, yat

tay

1. your (singular)

• mími

tay

1. woman

• Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza

From Middle French taye, and its source, Latin tēca, thēca, from Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “covering, sheath”).

tay (plural tays)

1. The outer membrane of the brain.
   • 1470–1485 (date produced)​, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum 4”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XXI, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:

     ryght so he smote hys fadir, Kynge Arthure, with hys swerde holdynge in both hys hondys, uppon the syde of the hede, that the swerde perced the helmet and the tay of the brayne.

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• “tei and teie, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 September 2020.

tay

1. Alternative form of þei

tay

1. big

• (Izalco) tey (/ˈteːj/)

From Proto-Nahuan *tla-. Compare Classical Nahuatl tlein (“what”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːj/

tay

1. (interroɡative) what

   Tay tikwaj yalua?

   What did you eat yesterday?

2. (relative) what; that which; the thing that

   Tesu nikmati ne tay inak

   I dont't know what she/he said

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (tay), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Kazakh тай (tai), Chuvash тиха (tih̬a), тӑйха (tăjh̬a).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑj/

tay (definite accusative tayı, plural taylar)

1. colt (horse)

From Proto-Vietic *siː. Cognate with Thavung ซี.

The relationship between this root and the root represented by Khmer ដៃ (day), Bahnar ti, Juang iti is uncertain. Sora siˀi is likely a post-Proto-Munda development, as other Munda reflexes show /t/.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [taj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [taj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta(ː)j˧˧]
• Homophone: tai (in some Southern accents)

tay • (𢬣, 𪮏, 拪, 揌)

1. (colloquial) a hand

   quẹo bên tay phải ― to turn right (to the right-hand side)

2. (colloquial) an arm

   tay áo ― a sleeve

3. (informal) a guy; a dude

   Tay này không phải vừa đâu!

   He’s not the type to be trifled with!