tej

English

A berele glass containing unfiltered tej.

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ጠጀ (ṭäǧä, honey wine, mead).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛd͡ʒ]

Noun

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tej)

  1. A style of mead or honey wine common to Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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Anagrams


Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tai e, parallel of tëhu[1].

Adverb

tej

  1. far
  2. beyond

References

  1. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill, Leiden 2000, p. 451

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from an Iranian language, compare Ossetian дӕйын (dæjyn, to suck), Middle Persian [script needed] (dāyag, nurse), Persian دایه (dâye, nurse), Kurdish da (mother), Sanskrit धयति (dhayati, to suck, drink). Cognate also with old southern Mansi -тай (in сыртай (milk)), both possibly via Proto-Ugric *täjɜ.[1] The earlier nominative was , lost in favor of the oblique stem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛj]

Noun

tej (plural tejek)

  1. milk

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative tej tejek
accusative tejet tejeket
dative tejnek tejeknek
instrumental tejjel tejekkel
causal-final tejért tejekért
translative tejjé tejekké
terminative tejig tejekig
essive-formal tejként tejekként
essive-modal
inessive tejben tejekben
superessive tejen tejeken
adessive tejnél tejeknél
illative tejbe tejekbe
sublative tejre tejekre
allative tejhez tejekhez
elative tejből tejekből
delative tejről tejekről
ablative tejtől tejektől
Possessive forms of tej
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tejem tejeim
2nd person sing. tejed tejeid
3rd person sing. teje tejei
1st person plural tejünk tejeink
2nd person plural tejetek tejeitek
3rd person plural tejük tejeik

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

See also

References

  1. Katz, Hartmut. 1991. "Altsüdwogulisches". — Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 50, pp. 81–91.

Lower Sorbian

tej

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛj/, [tej]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Tee, from Min Nan (), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (leaf, tea).

Noun

tej m

  1. tea
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Determiner

tej

  1. inflection of ten:
    1. dative and locative feminine singular
    2. nominative and accusative dual

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛj/

Pronoun

tej f

  1. inflection of ta:
    1. genitive singular
    2. dative singular
    3. locative singular
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