tej

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English[edit]

A berele glass containing unfiltered tej.

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tej)

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

, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 49:

She smells the mingling odors of sweat and tej inside the hot room.

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *tai e, a parallel formation to tëhu.[1]

Adverb[edit]

tej

  1. far
  2. beyond

References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “tej”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 451

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛj]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛj

Noun[edit]

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tejek)

  1. milk (a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young)
  2. milk (a white or whitish liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans)
  3. (in compound words) dairy
    tejgazdaságdairy farm

Declension[edit]

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
non-attributive
possessive - singular
tejé tejeké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
tejéi tejekéi
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[edit]

Compound words with this term at the beginning
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

  • tej in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Anagrams[edit]

Lower Sorbian[edit]

tej

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

tej m inan

  1. tea
Declension[edit]
Synonyms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner[edit]

tej

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

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

tej m inan

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter t.

See also[edit]

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun[edit]

tej f

  1. genitive/dative/locative singular of ta

Etymology 2[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun[edit]

tej

  1. (Poznań, colloquial) you, the second person singular pronoun

Further reading[edit]

  • tej in Polish dictionaries at PWN