tiee
Limburgish edit
Alternative forms edit
- tieë (Veldeke spelling)
- tie̩ (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling)
- tsää (Eupen, borrowed from German)
- tieech (older variant, still prevalent in Selfkant)
Etymology edit
From earlier tiech (whence also Selfkant tieech), from *tēh, from *tāhi (cf. Old High German zāhi), from Proto-West Germanic *tą̄h(ī). Compare German zäh, Dutch taai, English tough.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
tiee (masculine tiee, feminine tiee, neuter tiee, comparative tieer or tier, superlative tieeste) (German-based spelling)