tei

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

tei

1. feces; manure

tei

1. water

• 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')

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

tei m

1. lime tree, linden

tei

1. plural of teo

tei

1. Rōmaji transcription of てい

Akin to Latvian tie and Lithuanian tie.

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

tei

1. that (feminine)

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

From Proto-Finnic *täi.

tei

1. louse

tei

1. Nonstandard spelling of tēi.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

tei

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

tei

1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

tei

1. imperative of teia

tei

1. child

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

tei

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of toi
   • circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:

     Li Angles Dex li respundi: Tais tei

     The Angel of God said to him: shut up

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

tei m (plural tei)

1. lime tree
2. linden

• teios

tei

1. younger relative

tei (plural teis)

1. (South Scots) tea

tei

1. one

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

From Proto-Oceanic *bei.

tei

1. water

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

Borrowing from English tie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtei̯/
• Rhymes: -ei̯

tei m or f (plural teis)

1. necktie