tei
Brooke's Point Palawano edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi. Compare Indonesian tahi, Malagasy tay, Palauan dach and Samoan tae.
Noun edit
tei
Chang edit
Noun edit
tei
References edit
- 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')
Fala edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese tou, from Latin tuus.
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)
- Second-person singular possessive determiner; your
Pronoun edit
tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)
- Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours
See also edit
Possessee | ||||||
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Singular | Plural | |||||
Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | |||
Possessor | First person | Singular | mei | miña | meis | miñas |
Plural | nosu | nosa | nosus | nosas | ||
Second person | Singular | tei | túa, tu1 | teis | túas, tus1 | |
Plural | vosu | vosa | vosus | vosas | ||
Third person | sei | súa, su1 | seis | súas, sus1 |
- Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.
References edit
Friulian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tilia, changed into a masculine. Compare Italian tiglio, Romanian tei, Catalan tell.
Noun edit
tei m
Ido edit
Noun edit
tei
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
tei
Latgalian edit
Etymology edit
Akin to Latvian tie and Lithuanian tie.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
tei
- that (feminine)
Declension edit
See also edit
References edit
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 37
Livonian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *täi.
Noun edit
tei
Declension edit
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
tei
- Nonstandard spelling of tēi.
Usage notes edit
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
tei
- Alternative form of teye (“cord, chain”)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronoun edit
tei
- Alternative form of þei (“they”)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
tei
- imperative of teia
Obokuitai edit
Noun edit
tei
Further reading edit
- Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)
Old French edit
Pronoun edit
tei
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of toi
- c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
- Li Angles Dex li respundi: Tais tei
- The Angel of God said to him: shut up
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin tilia, turned masculine in assimilation to other tree names, or through Vulgar Latin *tilius. Compare Italian tiglio and Friulian tei.
Noun edit
tei m (plural tei)
- linden tree
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Samoan edit
Noun edit
tei
- younger relative
Scots edit
Noun edit
tei (plural teis)
Tobati edit
Numeral edit
tei
References edit
- Mark Donohue, Tobati, in John Lynch, Malcolm Ross, Terry Crowley, The Oceanic Languages (Curzon Press, Londres, 2002)
Tolomako edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Oceanic *bei.
Noun edit
tei
References edit
- Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976), page 311
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tei m or f (plural teis)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
tei | dei | nhei | thei |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |