ti

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ti"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, tee

Etymology 1

Alteration of si, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter.

Noun

ti (plural tis)

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

Synonyms

• (music): si, te

Translations

seventh note of a major scale — see si

Etymology 2

From a Polynesian language, related to Hawaiian kī.

Alternative forms

• ki

Noun

ti (plural tis)

1. The good luck plant, Cordyline fruticosa, an evergreen shrub.

Anagrams

• 'it, IT, It., It⁺⁶, it

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂; accusative ty is from Proto-Albanian *twā from emphatic *tu̯ḗm, clitic të is from clitic *te, and ablative teje is from locative *toí + -je from meje (see unë).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

Pronoun

ti (accusative ty, dative ty, ablative teje)

1. you (singular)

Declension

forms of ti

	ti (2nd person singular)
nominative	ti
ablative	teje
	full form	clitic
accusative	ty	të
dative	ty	të
	possessive adjective	possessive pronoun
	yt	yti

See also

Albanian personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		unë	ne
2nd person		ti	ju
3rd person	masculine	ai	ata
	feminine	ajo	ato

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Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin tē, accusative of tū. Compare Romanian te.

Pronoun

ti (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of tu)

1. (direct object) you

Related terms

• tini
• tu

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Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.

Noun

ti m

1. house

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Byangsi

Noun

ti (transliteration needed)

1. water

References

• Yasuhiko Nagano, ‎Randy J. LaPolla, New Research on Zhangzhung and Related Himalayan Languages (2001)
• Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand (1989), section Chaudangsi-Byangsi, page 161:

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Chaudangsi

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand (1989), section Chaudangsi-Byangsi, page 161:

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Choctaw

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea.

Noun

ti

1. tea

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Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea.

Noun

ti

1. tea

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Czech

Etymology

Inflected form of ten.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Pronoun

ti

1. they, those

   Kde jsou Pavel s Ivanou? Ti přijdou později. ― Where are Pavel and Ivana? Those two will come later.

2. to you

   Dávám ti to na opravu. ― I give it to you to repair it.

Synonyms

• oni
• tobě

Related terms

• tito
• ty

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Danish

Danish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ti     Ordinal : tiende

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”). Cognate with Icelandic tíu, Faroese tíggju, Norwegian ti, Swedish tio, and English ten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/, [tˢiˀ]
• Rhymes: -i
• Rhymes: -iː

Numeral

ti

1. (cardinal) ten

Etymology 2

See tie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/, [tˢiːˀ]

Verb

ti

1. imperative of tie

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Darmiya

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• A Descriptive Grammar of Darma: An Endangered Tibeto-Burman Language (2007)

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Dogrib

Noun

ti

1. water
2. liquid
3. lake

References

• Tłįįchǫ yati Enįhtł'è (1996; published by the Dogrib Divisional Board of Education, Dogrib Language Centre)
• Thomas Sebeok, Native Languages of the Americas, volume 1, page 292: [Howren] notes u > i in Dogrib (ti 'water', Hare-Bearlake tu; this shift occurs also in Ingalik and Tanaina in Alaska)

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Fijian

Noun

ti

1. tea

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Finnish

Etymology 1

From tiistai (“Tuesday”).

Abbreviation

ti

1. tiistai (Tuesday)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English dit.

Noun

ti

1. dit (spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code)

Declension

• not inflected

Synonyms

• piste

Derived terms

• titata
• titaus
• titari

Related terms

• taa (dah)

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin tē, accusative singular of tū. As an indirect object, in part from Latin tibi, dative singular of tū, through a Vulgar Latin *ti.

Pronoun

ti (second person direct object, indirect object)

1. (direct object) you
2. (indirect object) to you
3. (reflexive) yourself

Related terms

• tu

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin tū. The accusative is from Latin tē, the dative from tibi.

Pronoun

ti (accusative te, dative che)

1. you (singular)

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French petit (“little”). 

Adjective

ti

1. little

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea.

Noun

tî m (possessed form tîn)

1. tea

   Synonym: shayi

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti]

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *te (compare Finnish te).

Pronoun

ti

1. (personal) you (second-person plural, nominative, informal form)

Declension

declension of ti nominative ti accusative titeket dative nektek instrumental veletek causal-final értetek inessive bennetek superessive rajtatok adessive nálatok illative belétek sublative rátok allative hozzátok elative belőletek delative rólatok ablative tőletek

Etymology 2

Noun

solmisation

ti (plural tik)

1. ti, a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	ti	tik
accusative	tit	tiket
dative	tinek	tiknek
instrumental	tivel	tikkel
causal-final	tiért	tikért
translative	tivé	tikké
terminative	tiig	tikig
essive-formal	tiként	tikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tiben	tikben
superessive	tin	tiken
adessive	tinél	tiknél
illative	tibe	tikbe
sublative	tire	tikre
allative	tihez	tikhez
elative	tiből	tikből
delative	tiről	tikről
ablative	titől	tiktől

Possessive forms of ti
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tim	tijeim
2nd person sing.	tid	tijeid
3rd person sing.	tije	tijei
1st person plural	tink	tijeink
2nd person plural	titek	tijeitek
3rd person plural	tijük	tijeik

See also

• dó, ré, mi, fá, szó, lá

Further reading

• [1]

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

Pronoun

ti

1. Alternative form of iti

   Ti esas plu forta, ma ci plu bela. ― Those guys are stronger, but these guys are prettier.

   Yes, ma me kredas ke ti esas plu bona. ― Yes, but I think that those (things) are better.

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin tū.

Pronoun

ti

1. you (second-person singular personal pronoun)
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 29:

     Ti son la manduleîna inzucherada.

     You are the sugared almond.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/, [t̪i]
• Rhymes: -i
• Stress: tì
• Hyphenation: ti

Etymology 1

From Latin tē (the name of the letter T).

Noun

ti f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.; tee

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, i lunga, kappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon, zeta

Etymology 2

From Latin tē (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”). As a dative, in part from Latin tibi, dative of tū, through a Vulgar Latin *ti.

Pronoun

ti

1. accusative and dative of tu; you
2. second-person singular of si; you

Usage notes

Becomes te when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

See also

Italian personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Locative	Genitive	Disjunctive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m'			—		me
	second	—	tu	ti, t'					te
	third	m	lui	si,2 s'	lo, l'	gli	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'	lui, sé
		f 1	lei, Lei		la, l', La	le,3 Le			lei, Lei, sé
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c'			—		noi
	second	—	voi	vi, v'					voi
	third	m	loro, Loro	si, s'	li	gli, loro (formal), Loro	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'	loro, Loro, sé
		f 1			le
1	The feminine gender forms are also used as formal terms of address, sometimes capitalised as Lei, Loro etc. to distinguish them.
2	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3	In informal speech sometimes replaced with gli (nonstandard).

Etymology 3

Noun

ti m (invariable)

1. (music) ti (note)
2. (music) B (note and scale)

Further reading

• Italian grammar: Pronouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ti (nota) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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Kikuyu

Particle

ti

1. (negation) not

   gũtema na kanua ti gũtema na rũhiũ

   cutting with a mouth is not cutting with a knife

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Ladin

Etymology

te +‎ i

Contraction

ti

1. in the (masculine plural)

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Lai

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• English to Hakha-Chin Online Dictionary
• English to Chin (Hakha) Dictionary

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Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin tē, accusative of tū (“you”), from Proto-Italic *tū (accusative *tē), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂, (accusative *twé ~ *te).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

Pronoun

ti

1. you (singular)

See also

• mi
• lê
• noî, niâtri
• voî, viâtri
• lô, liâtri

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Lote

Noun

ti

1. tea

References

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote grammar sketch (2008)

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Mandarin

Romanization

ti

1. Nonstandard spelling of tī.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǐ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tì.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Mara Chin

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• Fred W. Savidge, A grammar and dictionary of the Lakher language (1908)
• marasaw.com wordlist

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Middle English

Determiner

ti

1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þi

References

• “thin, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ti     Ordinal : tiende

Etymology

From Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun (“ten”), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t (“ten”). Cognate with Icelandic tíu, Faroese tíggju, Swedish tio, Danish ti and English ten.

Numeral

ti

1. (cardinal) ten

Derived terms

• tidel
• tikamp
• tiår
• årti

Related terms

• tiende

References

• “ti” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tíu

Numeral

ti

1. (cardinal) ten

Derived terms

• tidel
• tikamp
• tiår

Related terms

• tiande

References

• “ti” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Novial

Determiner

ti

1. (demonstrative) that

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Old French

Pronoun

ti pl

1. your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀢𑀺 (Brahmi script)
• ति (Devanagari script)
• তি (Bengali script)
• ති (Sinhalese script)
• တိ (Burmese script)
• ติ (Thai script)
• ᨲᩥ (Tai Tham script)
• តិ (Khmer script)

Particle

ti

1. elided form of iti

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Pattani

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• 1972, Paul Benedict, Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus, p. 26 (as Manchati)

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese ti, from Latin tibi, from Proto-Indo-European *tébʰye, dative of *túh₂ (“you”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Northeast Brazil, South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈti/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi/
• Rhymes: -i

Pronoun

ti

1. prepositional of tu

   Dá-los-ei a ti.

   I will give them to you.

See also

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number	Person	Nominative (subject)		Accusative (direct object)		Dative (indirect object)	Prepositional		Prepositional with com		Non-declining
		m	f	m	f	m and f	m	f	m	f	m	f
Singular	First	eu		me			mim		comigo
	Second	tu		te			ti		contigo		você
											o senhor	a senhora
	Third	ele	ela	o (lo, no)	a (la, na)	lhe	ele	ela	com ele	com ela	o mesmo	a mesma
				se (reflexive)			si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)
Plural	First	nós		nos			nós		connosco (Portugal) conosco (Brazil)		a gente
	Second	vós		vos			vós		convosco		vocês
											os senhores	as senhoras
	Third	eles	elas	os (los, nos)	as (las, nas)	lhes	eles	elas	com eles	com elas	os mesmos	as mesmas
				se (reflexive)			si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)
Indefinite				se (reflexive)			si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)

Etymology 2

Adjective

ti (invariable, comparable)

1. (lexicography) Initialism of transitivo indireto.

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin tū.

Pronoun

ti

1. you (singular familiar)

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Scots

Particle

ti

1. (South Scots) to

Preposition

ti

1. (South Scots) to

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tîː/

Pronoun

tȋ (Cyrillic spelling ти̑)

1. (singular) you
2. nominative plural of taj (masculine); those (= oni)

   Tko su ti ljudi? ― Who are those people?

Declension

Declension of ti

	singular	plural
nominative	tȋ	vȋ
genitive	tȅbe, te	vȃs, vas
dative	tȅbi, ti	vȁma, vam
accusative	tȅbe, te	vȃs, vas
vocative	tî	vȋ
locative	tȅbi	vȁma
instrumental	tȍbōm	vȁma

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronoun

ti

1. dative singular of tȋ

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtíː/
• Tonal orthography: tȋ

Pronoun

tí

1. you (singular); thou

Declension

Declension of ti (irregular, suppletive)

singular
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	jàz	tí	—
accusative	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
genitive	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
dative	méni, mi	tébi, ti	sébi, si
locative	méni	tébi	sébi
instrumental	menój, máno	tebój, tábo	sebój, sábo
possessive	mój	tvój	svój
dual
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mídva m, médve/mídve f, n	vídva m, védve/vídve f, n	—
accusative	náju	váju	sébe, se
genitive	náju	váju	sébe, se
dative	náma	váma	sébi, si
locative	náju	váju	sébi
instrumental	náma	váma	sebój, sábo
possessive	nájin	vájin	svój
plural
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mí m, mé f, n	ví m, vé f, n	—
accusative	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
genitive	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
dative	nàm	vàm	sébi, si
locative	nàs	vàs	sébi
instrumental	nàmi	vàmi	sebój, sábo
possessive	nàš	vàš	svój

See also

Slovene personal pronouns

			singular	dual	plural
1st person		m	jaz	midva	mi
		f		medve, midve	me
2nd person	familiar	m	ti	vidva	vi
		f		vedve, vidve	ve
	polite	m	vi	vidva	vi
		f	vi	vedve, vidve	ve
3rd person		m	on	onadva	oni
		f	ona	onedve, onidve	one
		n	ono	onedve, onidve	ona

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tibi, dative of tu, from Proto-Indo-European *tébʰye, dative of *túh₂ (“you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/
• Rhymes: -i

Pronoun

ti

1. you, thee (declined form of tú used as the object of a preposition)

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular			yo	me		mí1
	plural	masculine2		nosotros	nos		nosotros
		feminine		nosotras			nosotras
second person	singular	tuteo		tú	te		ti1
		voseo		vos			vos
		formal3		usted	le, se4	lo/la5	usted
	plural	familiar6	masculine2	vosotros	os		vosotros
			feminine	vosotras			vosotras
		formal/general3		ustedes	les, se4	los/las5	ustedes
third person	singular	masculine2		él	le, se4	lo	él
		feminine		ella		la	ella
		neuter		ello7		lo/la5	ello
	plural	masculine2		ellos	les, se4	los	ellos
		feminine		ellas		las	ellas
	reflexive			—	se		sí1

1. Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
2. Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
4. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
5. Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
6. Used primarily in Spain
7. Used only in rare circumstances

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Tiwa

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• The Bodos in Assam: a socio-cultural study, year 2005-2006 (2007)

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English tea.

Noun

ti

1. tea

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Vayu

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• Paul K. Benedict, Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus (1972, →ISBN, page 26

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 司.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ti˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tɪj˧˧]

Noun

ti

1. (obsolete) department, division of a ministry

Synonyms

• sở

Derived terms

• công ti

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Wancho

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti⁵²/

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• Robbins Burling, Mankai Wangsu, Wancho Phonology and word list, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 21.2 (1998)

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Homophones: tu, tŷ (South Wales only)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *ti, from Proto-Celtic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Alternative forms

• di
• ’th
• chdi

Pronoun

ti

1. you (singular); thou

Usage notes

The pronoun ti can be used by itself colloquially where the affirmative second-person singular present tense of the verb ‘to be’ (rwyt) would be expected, e.g. Ti’n edrych yn union fel dy dad (‘You look just like your father’) instead of Rwyt ti’n edrych....

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tee.

Noun

ti m (plural tiau or tïau)

1. tee

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
ti	di	nhi	thi
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.