тея

Erzya

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Uralic *tijä (“tight, narrow”).

Adjective

тея • (ťeja)

1. narrow

   Synonym: теине (ťejińe)

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “тея”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1052 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.