teh

See also: téh, tèh, Teh, and TEH

English

Etymology

Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĕ, IPA^(key): /tɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ

Article

teh

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of the, for humorous, sarcastic, or facetious effect.

   This is teh game for your new box!

   You are teh haxor!

   • 2007 October, GameAxis Unwired, SPH Magazines, page 14:

     This Beowulf is based on a new animated movie of the same name... so yes, this counts as yet another game based on a movie, which basically relegates it to teh suck status in the minds of most.

   • 2010, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 10:

     Spending Fridays at school was teh suck anyway, and I was glad of the excuse to make my escape.

   • 2010, Martin Grondin, LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 78:

     Awl teh booze got drink, an Happy Cat's momz was liek, “Dey gotz no booze. Dis parti iz teh suck!”

Usage notes

• Teh is sometimes used in deliberately ungrammatical ways compared to the word the. For example, teh can be applied to adjectives; "He is teh stupid" is an acceptable sentence within the universe of teh usage, whereas ordinarily "He is the stupid" is not.

Anagrams

• -eth, ETH, Eth, Eth., HET, eth, eth-, het, the, the-

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Albanian

Etymology

A prefixed derivative of eh.

Noun

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

1. blade

Related terms

• eh

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Bahnar

Alternative forms

• tĕh

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 tiiq (“earth, ground, soil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛh/

Noun

teh

1. earth, ground
2. dirt

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Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• te

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teʔ/

Pronoun

teh

1. (emphatic) you (singular), thou

Synonyms

• tehhuatl

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Indonesian

Teh

Etymology

From Malay teh (“tea”), from Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛh/
• Hyphenation: tèh

Noun

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

1. tea

Derived terms

• mengeteh
• teh-tehan

 

• teh botol
• teh celup
• teh herbal
• teh hijau
• teh hitam
• teh hutan
• teh jahe merah
• teh kampung
• teh kotak
• teh kulit manggis
• teh kuning
• teh makau
• teh manis
• teh merah
• teh obeng
• teh oolong
• teh pahit
• teh paraguai
• teh pelangsing
• teh putih
• teh ragi
• teh talua
• teh tarik
• teh tawar
• teh tubruk

 

Further reading

• “teh” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Etymology

From Min Nan 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).

Noun

teh (Jawi spelling تيه, informal 1st possessive tehku, 2nd possessive tehmu, 3rd possessive tehnya)

1. tea

Synonyms

• ca

Derived terms

• teh tarik

Descendants

• Indonesian: teh
• → Dutch: thee, (obsolete) tee
  • Afrikaans: tee
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: tei
  • Negerhollands: thee, tee
  • → Caribbean Javanese: teh
  • → Dutch Low Saxon: thee
  • → Danish: te, the (unofficial since 1872, but still common)
    • → Faroese: te
  • → English: tea (see there for further descendants)
  • → French: thé (see there for further descendants)
  • → German: Tee (see there for further descendants)
  • → Icelandic: te
  • → Kari'na: te
  • → Latin: thea (see there for further descendants)
  • → Latvian: tēja
  • → Norwegian: te
  • → Sranan Tongo: te
    • → Aukan: te
    • → Saramaccan: té
  • → Swedish: te, the, thé
    • → Finnish: tee
  • → West Frisian: tee

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Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of teh – see 咧 (“in the process of; currently”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 咧).

For pronunciation and definitions of teh – see 硩 (“to press; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 硩).

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Slavey

Noun

1. water

References

• Keren Rice, A grammar of Slave (1989)