teh

See also: TEH

English

Pronunciation
  • enPR: tĕ, IPA(key): /tɛ/

Article

teh

  1. (Should we delete(+) this sense?) Misspelling of the.
  2. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of the for humorous, sarcastic or facetious effect.
    This is teh game for your new box!
    You are teh haxor!

Usage notes
  • Teh is sometimes used in deliberately grammatically incorrect ways compared to the word the. For example, teh can be applied to adjectives; "He is teh stupid" is an acceptable sentence, whereas ordinarily "He is the stupid" is not.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

A prefixed derivative of eh.

Noun

teh m (indefinite plural teha, definite singular teha, definite plural tehat)

  1. blade

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *t(n)ɛh, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁iʔ ~ *t₁ih ~ *t₁iəh (“earth, ground”); cognate with Koho tiah (“earth, ground”), Mon တိ (tɔeˀ, “earth, ground, land”), Khmer ដី (dəy, “earth, ground, land”), Semai tei (“earth, ground, soil”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɛh/

Noun

teh

  1. earth, ground
  2. dirt

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /teʔ/

Pronoun

teh

  1. (emphatic) you (singular), thou

Synonyms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay, from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Noun

teh (plural teh-teh, first-person possessive tehku, second-person possessive tehmu, third-person possessive tehnya)

  1. tea

Malay

Etymology

From Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Noun

teh (Jawi spelling تيه‎, informal first-person possessive tehku, informal second-person possessive tehmu, third-person possessive tehnya)

  1. tea

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Indonesian: teh
  • → Dutch: thee
    • Afrikaans: tee
    • → West Frisian: tee
    • → Dutch Low Saxon: thee
    • → Danish: te
      • → Faroese: te
    • → English: tea
      • Gullah: tea
      • Jamaican Creole: tea
      • → Abenaki: ti
      • → Chickasaw: tii'
      • → Cocopa: ṭi·
      • → Cornish: té
      • → Cree:
        Canadian syllabics: ᑎᕀ (tiy)
        Latin: tiy
      • → Irish: tae
      • → Maori: tī
      • → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
      • → Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
      • → Panamint: tii
      • → Unami: ti
      • → Welsh: te
    • → French: thé
      • Haitian Creole: te
      • Louisiana Creole French: thé
      • → Greek: τέϊον (téïon) (with neuter suffix -ion)
      • → Italian: tè
      • → Norman: thée
      • → Occitan: tè
      • → Old Armenian: թէյ (tʿēy) (post-classical)
      • → Romansch: te, té, tè
      • → Tiri: tee
      • → Walloon: té
    • → German: Tee
      • → German Low German: Tee
        • Plautdietsch: Tee
      • → Estonian: tee
      • → Hunsrik: Tee
      • → Lower Sorbian: tej
      • → Romansch: te, té, tè
      • → Saterland Frisian: Tee
      • → Silesian: tyj
        • → Slovene: te (dialectal)
      • → Silesian German: Tee
      • → Vilamovian: tyy
      • → Zipser German: Tee
    • → Icelandic: te
    • → New Latin: thea
      • ⇒ Latin: herba thea (“herb tea”)
        • → Polish: herbata
          • → Belarusian: гарба́та (harbáta)
          • → Kashubian: arbata
          • → Lithuanian: arbata
          • → Samogitian: erbeta
          • → Ukrainian: герба́та (herbáta), герба́тка (herbátka)
    • → Latvian: tēja
    • → Norwegian: te
    • → Spanish: té
      • → Asturian: té
      • → Basque: te
      • → Catalan: te
      • → Galician: té
      • → Navajo: dééh
      • → Occitan: tè
    • → Swedish: te, the, thé
      • → Finnish: tee

Min Nan
For pronunciation and definitions of teh – see 咧 (“in the process of; currently”).
(This character, teh, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 咧.)

Slavey

Noun

teh

  1. water

References
  • Keren Rice, A grammar of Slave (1989)
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