teina

See also: teinä, teină, tēina, teína, teiną, Teina, and Teiną

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: te‧ì‧na

Noun

teina f (plural teine)

1. theine (caffeine in tea)

Further reading

• “teina” in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• “teina”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• Tinea, aneti, etani, etnia, natie, tenia

Māori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tahina (“younger sibling of same sex”), from Proto-Central Pacific *tahina, from Proto-Oceanic *taci- (“younger sibling of the same sex”), from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *taji, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *taji, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taji, reduced from *ta-huaji, prefixed from *huaji (“younger sibling”). Cognates include Hawaiian kaina, Tahitian teina, Tongan tehina and Samoan tei. Doublet of taina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtei.na/ [ˈtɛi.nɐ]

Noun

teina (irregular plural tēina)

1. younger sibling regardless of gender
   1. younger brother of a male
   2. younger sister of a female

   Synonym: taina

2. any junior relative including cousins

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “teina”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, 5th edition, Wellington, N.Z.: Marcus F. Marks, page 480
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “teina”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *tainijǭ (“wickerwork; wicker basket”), derived from *tainaz (“rod; twig”). Cognates include Middle English tenel.

Noun

teina f

1. basket made of twigs, wicker basket

Declension

Declension of teina (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	teina	teinan	teinur	teinurnar
accusative	teinu	teinuna	teinur	teinurnar
dative	teinu	teinunni	teinum	teinunum
genitive	teinu	teinunnar	teinna	teinnanna

Related terms

• teinn m (“twig, sprout”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: teina
• Norwegian: teina, teine; (dialectal) tine, tene
  • → Danish: tejne (teine) c (Norway)
    • Norwegian Bokmål: teine m or f
• Swedish: tena
• Danish: tene

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

teina

1. inflection of teinn:
   1. indefinite accusative plural
   2. indefinite genitive plural

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “teina”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English theine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: te‧i‧na

Noun

teina f (related adjective teinowy)

1. theine (caffeine in tea)

Declension

Declension of teina

	singular
nominative	teina
genitive	teiny
dative	teinie
accusative	teinę
instrumental	teiną
locative	teinie
vocative	teino

Further reading

• “teina”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• teina in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: te‧i‧na

Noun

teina f

1. nominative/accusative definite singular of teină

Teposcolula Mixtec

Etymology

*te- (“animal”) +‎ Proto-Mixtec *ínà (“dog”). Cf. Alcozauca Mixtec tìnà, Tezoatlán Mixtec ti̱na.

Noun

teina

1. dog

Derived terms

• teina coho
• teina dzundu
• teina idzitaa
• teina yanda naydzi
• teinandee
• teinandeque

References

• Alvarado, Francisco de (1593), Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 166v