teas

See also: teás and téas

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophones: tease, tees

Noun

teas

1. plural of tea

Verb

teas

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tea

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, seta, tase

Galician

Noun

teas

1. plural of tea

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”), from Proto-Celtic *texstus, from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“hot”). Cognate with Welsh tes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲasˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /tʲæsˠ/

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teasa)

1. heat, warmth
2. passion
3. feverishness

Declension

Declension of teas

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative teas Vocative a theas Genitive teasa Dative teas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an teas Genitive an teasa Dative leis an teas don teas

Synonyms

• (heat, warmth): teocht

Derived terms

• teas adamhach (“atomic heat”)
• teas folaigh (“latent heat”)

Related terms

• te (“hot, warm”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
teas	theas	dteas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “teas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 tess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85

Romanian

Noun

teas n (plural teasuri)

1. Alternative form of tas

Declension

Declension of teas

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) teas	teasul	(niște) teasuri	teasurile
genitive/dative	(unui) teas	teasului	(unor) teasuri	teasurilor
vocative	teasule		teasurilor

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰes̪/

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teas, no plural)

1. heat

   Bha iad gam blianadh fhèin anns teas na grèine.

   They were basking in the heat of the sun.

Derived terms

• ain-teas
• teasachadh (“heating”)
• teasadair (“heater”)
• teasaich (“heat (up)”)
• teas-mheidh (“thermometer”)

Related terms

• teodhachd (“temperature”)
• teth (“hot”)

Spanish

Noun

teas f

1. plural of tea