teia

• teie (e infinitive)

• IPA^(key): /²tæɪɑ/

From Old Norse þegja.

teia (present tense teier, past tense tagde, past participle tagd or tagt, present participle teiande, imperative tei)

1. to become silent
2. to be silent
3. to not tell anyone, to keep secret

   Du teier vel om dette?

   You'll keep this secret, right?

Spelt tæja until 1938, with a shorter alternative tæ, still part of the official spelling. From Old Norse tæja, from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną.

teia (present tense teier, past tense teidde, past participle teidd, passive infinitive teitt, present participle teiande, imperative tei)

1. to separate, to tear apart, to solve something complicated
2. to pick up
3. to explain

   Teia ut alt saman

   Explain everything

4. to look carefully (for something)

• “teia” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• teya (obsolete)

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtej.a/, /ˈtej.ɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɐj.ɐ/, /ˈtej.ɐ/
• Hyphenation: tei‧a

From Old Portuguese tea, from Latin tēla (“web; loom”). Doublet of tela (“canvas; screen”).

teia f (plural teias)

1. web; spider web
2. (weaving) woof (the set of yarns placed crosswise in a loom)
3. network (any interconnected group or system)
4. (figuratively, literature) plot (general course of a story)

• (spider web): teia de aranha
• (woof): trama, urdidura
• (network): emaranhado, rede
• (plot): enredo, trama

• teia alimentar
• teia de aranha
• teia de Penélope
• teia trófica

• tear
• tecer
• tela

From Old Portuguese tea, from Latin tēda, taeda (“torch”).

teia f (plural teias)

1. torch

• (torch): tocha, archote