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 Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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

Maori

Noun

teina (irregular plural tēina)

1. younger brother of a male
2. younger sister of a female

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
• 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