teh
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard.
Pronunciation[edit]
Article[edit]
teh
- (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.
Usage notes[edit]
- 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.
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Albanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A prefixed derivative of eh.
Noun[edit]
teh m (plural teha, definite teha, definite plural tehat)
Related terms[edit]
Bahnar[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
teh
Classical Nahuatl[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
teh
Synonyms[edit]
Hokkien[edit]
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). |
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Malay teh (“tea”), from Hokkien 茶 (tê).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tèh (first-person possessive tehku, second-person possessive tehmu, third-person possessive tehnya)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “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.
Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).
Noun[edit]
teh (Jawi spelling تيه, informal 1st possessive tehku, 2nd possessive tehmu, 3rd possessive tehnya)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Indonesian: teh
South Slavey[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
teh (stem -teh-)
- (in compounds) bed of water
References[edit]
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 184
Categories:
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɛ
- Rhymes:English/ɛ/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English articles
- English internet slang
- English intentional misspellings
- English terms with quotations
- Albanian lemmas
- Albanian nouns
- Albanian masculine nouns
- Bahnar terms inherited from Proto-Bahnaric
- Bahnar terms derived from Proto-Bahnaric
- Bahnar terms inherited from Proto-Mon-Khmer
- Bahnar terms derived from Proto-Mon-Khmer
- Bahnar terms with IPA pronunciation
- Bahnar lemmas
- Bahnar nouns
- Classical Nahuatl terms with IPA pronunciation
- Classical Nahuatl lemmas
- Classical Nahuatl pronouns
- Chinese lemmas
- Hokkien lemmas
- Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hokkien pe̍h-ōe-jī forms
- Chinese verbs
- Indonesian terms inherited from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Malay
- Indonesian terms derived from Hokkien
- Indonesian 1-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian terms with audio links
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Requests for plural forms in Indonesian entries
- Malay terms borrowed from Hokkien
- Malay terms derived from Hokkien
- Malay lemmas
- Malay nouns
- Malay uncountable nouns
- South Slavey terms with IPA pronunciation
- South Slavey lemmas
- South Slavey nouns