tee

See also: TEE, Tee, teè, and têe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː/

• Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.
   • 1773, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged, October

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant

     They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.

   • 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

2. Something shaped like the letter T.

   Hyponyms: tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed

   angles and tees

3. (clothing) T-shirt.

   Brendan pulled a black pocket tee over his head.

Derived terms

• teeshirt
• teevee
• tee bend
• tee joint
• tee junction

Translations

name of the letter T, t

• Arabic: تِي‎ m (tī)
• Burmese: တီ (my) (ti)
• Catalan: te (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Czech: té (cs) n
• Esperanto: to (eo)
• Finnish: tee (fi)
• French: té (fr) m
• Galician: te (gl) m
• Greek: τι (el) n (ti)
• Hawaiian: tī
• Hindi: टी (hi) (ṭī)
• Icelandic: té
• Ido: te (io)
• Irish: té, tinne (ga), teithne
• Japanese: ティー (tī)
• Korean: 티 (ko) (ti)
• Latin: tē (la)
• Malay: ti (ms)
• Marathi: टी (ṭī)
• Occitan: te f
• Portuguese: tê (pt) m
• Russian: ти (ru) n (ti) (English), тэ (ru) n (tɛ)
• Spanish: te (es) f
• Thai: ที (th) (tii)
• Turkish: te (tr)
• Vietnamese: tê (vi), tờ (vi)
• Welsh: ti (cy) f

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Etymology 2

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
   • 2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times‎^[1]:

     Pollard, who went into the semifinals with an unsatisfactory 63% return from the kicking tee, turned it around splendidly against Wales and he continued that form despite missing his first attempt in the final.

3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Derived terms

• tee ball
• tee off
• tee on
• tee up

Translations

golf: ground for hitting first shots

• Finnish: tiiauspaikka (fi)
• German: Abschlag (de) m
• Icelandic: teigur m
• Russian: ме́тка (ru) f (métka)
• Swedish: tee (sv) c
• Tagalog: puntod

golf: peg

• Finnish: tii (fi)
• German: Tee (de) n
• Icelandic: tí (is) n
• Russian: ко́лышек (ru) m (kólyšek)

curling: target area

• Finnish: tee (fi)
• Russian: мише́нь (ru) f (mišénʹ)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Tee (de), ^{(please verify)} Abschlag (de)
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} ティー
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} ti (cy) m

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee
   • 1909, Walter J. Travis, Practical Golf‎^[2]:

     If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.

Synonyms

• tee up

Etymology 3

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.

References

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “tee”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

Anagrams

• EET

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪə̯/

• Audio

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Noun

tee (uncountable)

1. tea

   Kom ons gaan drink tee.

   Let's go drink some tea.

Derived terms

• rooibostee
• teekoppie

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. road, way

Declension

Inflection of tee (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	tee	teed
accusative	tee	teed
genitive	tee	teede
partitive	teed	teid teesid
illative	teesse	teedesse teisse
inessive	tees	teedes teis
elative	teest	teedest teist
allative	teele	teedele teile
adessive	teel	teedel teil
ablative	teelt	teedelt teilt
translative	teeks	teedeks teiks
terminative	teeni	teedeni
essive	teena	teedena
abessive	teeta	teedeta
comitative	teega	teedega

Derived terms

• kiirtee
• maantee
• raudtee
• umbtee

Etymology 2

From German Tee, ultimately from Min Nan 茶 (tê).

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. tea

Declension

Inflection of tee (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	tee	teed
accusative	tee	teed
genitive	tee	teede
partitive	teed	teid teesid
illative	teesse	teedesse teisse
inessive	tees	teedes teis
elative	teest	teedest teist
allative	teele	teedele teile
adessive	teel	teedel teil
ablative	teelt	teedelt teilt
translative	teeks	teedeks teiks
terminative	teeni	teedeni
essive	teena	teedena
abessive	teeta	teedeta
comitative	teega	teedega

Derived terms

• liivatee

Etymology 3

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Etymology 4

Verb

tee

1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
2. Present connegative form of tegema.

Finnish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Swedish te, itself from Dutch thee, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee

Noun

tee

1. (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)

   Mene kauppaan ja osta teetä.

   Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.

2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)

   Synonyms: (dialectal) saikka, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaiju, tsaju, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)

   Haluaisitko teetä?

   Would you like some tea?

3. (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)

   Synonym: teelaatu

   Darjeeling on intialainen tee.

   Darjeeling is a tea from India.

4. (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)

   Synonym: juoma

   yrttitee ― herbal tea

   kamomillatee ― camomile tea

   minttutee ― mint tea

5. (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)

   Synonyms: teekupillinen, kuppi teetä

Usage notes

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie (“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a synonym for the word tee in those cases.

Declension

Inflection of tee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		tee	(teet)
genitive		teen	(teiden) (teitten)
partitive		teetä	(teitä)
illative		teehen	(teihin)
		singular	plural
nominative		tee	(teet)
accusative	nom.	tee	(teet)
	gen.	teen
genitive		teen	(teiden) (teitten)
partitive		teetä	(teitä)
inessive		teessä	(teissä)
elative		teestä	(teistä)
illative		teehen	(teihin)
adessive		teellä	(teillä)
ablative		teeltä	(teiltä)
allative		teelle	(teille)
essive		teenä	(teinä)
translative		teeksi	(teiksi)
instructive		—	(tein)
abessive		teettä	(teittä)
comitative		—	(teineen)
Plural forms of this word are not commonly used, but might be found in figurative uses, in some set phrases or in colloquial language.

Possessive forms of tee (type maa)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	teeni	teemme
2nd person	teesi	teenne
3rd person	teensä

Derived terms

Derived terms

• aamutee
• hedelmätee
• hopeatee
• iltatee
• irtotee
• jäätee
• kamomillatee
• kukkatee
• kuplatee
• minttutee
• piparminttutee
• pussitee
• ruusunmarjatee
• sitruunatee
• teeastiasto
• teehuone
• teejuoma
• teekalusto
• teekannu
• teekeitin
• teekuppi
• teelaatu
• teelasi
• teelehdet
• teelehti
• teeleipä
• teelusikka
• teemakkara
• teenjuonti
• teenkasvatus
• teenkeitin
• teenlehdet
• teenviljely
• teepannu
• teepensas
• teepussi
• teepöytä
• teesekoitus
• teeseremonia
• teesieni
• teesiivilä
• teetarjoilu
• teetarjotin
• teetupa
• teevati
• teevesi
• vadelmatee
• yrttitee

Etymology 2

From Latin tē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee

Noun

tee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Declension

Inflection of tee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		tee	teet
genitive		teen	teiden teitten
partitive		teetä	teitä
illative		teehen	teihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tee	teet
accusative	nom.	tee	teet
	gen.	teen
genitive		teen	teiden teitten
partitive		teetä	teitä
inessive		teessä	teissä
elative		teestä	teistä
illative		teehen	teihin
adessive		teellä	teillä
ablative		teeltä	teiltä
allative		teelle	teille
essive		teenä	teinä
translative		teeksi	teiksi
instructive		—	tein
abessive		teettä	teittä
comitative		—	teineen

Possessive forms of tee (type maa)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	teeni	teemme
2nd person	teesi	teenne
3rd person	teensä

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞ː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee

Verb

tee

1. present indicative connegative of tehdä
2. second-person singular present imperative of tehdä
3. second-person singular present imperative connegative of tehdä

Anagrams

• eet

French

Noun

tee m (plural tees)

1. (sports) tee

Further reading

• “tee”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Ingrian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje. Cognates include Finnish tie and Estonian tee.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈte̝ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

1. street
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Harkkaisin teen päälle, jää puuttui jalan alle.

     I stepped onto the street, ice got under my feet.

2. way, path
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova; V. G. Erdeli, Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, transl., Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Tiijussimma teen ja läksimmä.

     We recognised the way and we went.

Declension

Declension of tee (type 8/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	tee	teet
genitive	teen	teijen
partitive	teetä	teitä
illative	teehe	teihe
inessive	tees	teis
elative	teest	teist
allative	teelle	teille
adessive	teel	teil
ablative	teelt	teilt
translative	teeks	teiks
essive	teennä, teen	teinnä, tein
exessive1)	teent	teint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Synonyms

• (street): uulitsa

Derived terms

• meritee
• talvitee
• tiitää

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈte̝ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

Verb

tee

1. inflection of tehä:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. second-person singular imperative connegative

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 583

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-Germanic *taihwǭ.

Noun

têe f

1. toe

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
• Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

Further reading

• “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English tee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-er, definite plural tee-ene)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English tee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-ar, definite plural tee-ane)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ete

Old Irish

Adjective

teë

1. Alternative spelling of té

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
teë	theë	teë pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Ternate

Etymology

Likely from Malay teh, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [teː]

Noun

tee

1. tea

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tetum

Etymology

See the Tetum noun teen.

Verb

tee

1. to defecate, to excrete

Tiri

Noun

tee

1. tea

References

• Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

Võro

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Pronunciation

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

1. way, road

Inflection

Declension of tee (type I/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	tee	teed
genitive	tee	teije
partitive	teete	teite
illative	tehhe, tehese	teije, teise
inessive	teez	teiz
elative	teesse	teisse
allative	teele	teile
adessive	teelle	teille
ablative	teelte	teilte
translative	teessi	teissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[4], 2 edition, Tallinn

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowing from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Min Nan 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teː/

Noun

tee c (no plural)

1. tea

Further reading

• “tee”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011