Tet
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tet"
English
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Vietnamese Tết.
Proper noun
editTet
- Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
- 1981, Mimi Holtzman, TET: celebrating the Vietnamese New Year, Voices in Educational Transition, 114
- 2004, Ngọc Bích Nguyễn, Tet!: the Vietamese New Year, East Coast U.S.A. Vietnamese Pub. Consortium, 141
- 1994, Dianne M. MacMillan, Tet: Vietnamese New Year, Enslow Publishers, section 48:
- The Tet Offensive, in the Vietnam War.
Etymology 2
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editTet (plural Tets)
- An ancient Egyptian symbol of the god Osiris, in form a small pillar with a number of flat sections towards the top.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 222:
- To develop the higher mind one must first lower himself to raise the serpent, or set up the Tet pillar of Osiris.
Anagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editTet f
- Têt (a river in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, France)
Descendants
edit- French: Têt
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