different between teg vs tel

English

Etymology

First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

teg (plural tegs)

1. (Britain, dialect, dated) a sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

2. (Britain, dialect, dated) a doe in its second year

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• GTE, Get, TGE, get

Cornish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Numeral

teg

1. Hard mutation of deg.
2. Mixed mutation of deg.

Etymology 2

From the same source as Welsh teg (“fair, pretty”)

Adjective

teg

1. pretty, attractive

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: te

Pronoun

teg sg

1. accusative singular of tú (“you”)

Declension

Synonyms

• tjeg (dialectal)

Derived terms

• eg elski teg (“I love you”)

Hupdë

Noun

teg

1. tree

References

• 1979, Barbara J. Moore, Gail L. Franklin, Mary L. Daniel (translator), Breves notícias da língua maku-hupda, Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 11.

Livonian

Pronoun

teg

1. nominative plural of sin?

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tèg

1. (non-standard since 1938) imperative of tegja

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?/

Noun

teg n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige)

1. Alternative form of tech

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?g?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tê??/

Noun

t?g m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. weight (weightlifting)
2. weight (block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object)

Declension

Synonyms

• (Croatia) úteg

Slavomolisano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tê??/

Noun

teg m

1. work, employment
   • 2010, Rino John Gliosca, “Bonifacio en Amérique”:

Declension

References

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish tegher, from Old Norse teigr.

Noun

teg c

1. a small farm field, a part of a larger field

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

teg

1. past tense of tiga.

Anagrams

• get

Welsh

Etymology

Cognate with Cornish teg; further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te??/

Adjective

teg (feminine singular teg, plural teg, equative teced, comparative tecach, superlative tecaf)

1. fair (pretty, attractive)
2. fair, just
3. impartial, unbiased

   Antonym: annheg

Derived terms

• chwarae teg

Mutation

References

English

Etymology 1

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Abbreviation of telephone number.
2. Abbreviation of telegraph.
3. Abbreviation of telegram.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

tel (plural tels)

1. Alternative form of tell (“hill or mound”)

Anagrams

• -let, ELT, ETL, LTE, TLE, elt, let

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tellen, from Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???l]

Verb

tel (present tel, present participle telende, past participle tellende)

1. to count

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel).

Noun

tel

1. thread
2. (music) chord, string

Derived terms

• tejzë

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *t?l (“wire, string; thong; strand”). Cognate with Karakhanid ?????? (tili, “thong”), Crimean Tatar and Turkish tel, Turkmen til, Kumyk and Nogai ??? (tel), Chuvash ??? (tal, “bundle”).Alternatively, related to Armenian ??? (t?el, “thread”), either as a direct borrowing or originating from the same Iranian source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tel]

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural tell?r)

1. strand of hair
2. string
3. wire
4. telegram

5. fringe; bang; forelock
6. tie

Declension

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?té??]

Etymology 1

Particle

t?l

1. however, nonetheless

Etymology 2

Noun

t?l inan

1. first-person plural possessive singular of ?lli; (it is) our liver; the human liver.
2. first-person plural possessive plural of ?lli; (they are) our livers.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Compare Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel), Old Armenian ??? (t?el).

Noun

tel

1. wire

2. (music) chord, string

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

tel m (plural tellen, diminutive telletje n)

1. count

   De gebedssnoeren worden gebruikt om de tel niet kwijt te raken bij het reciteren of chanten.^[1] — Prayer beads are used in order to not lose count while reciting or chanting.

2. (time) second
3. a short moment

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of tellen
2. imperative of tellen

Anagrams

• Let, let

French

Etymology

From Old French tel, from Latin t?lis. Compare Spanish tal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Adjective

tel (feminine singular telle, masculine plural tels, feminine plural telles)

1. such

Derived terms

• telle mère, telle fille
• tel père, tel fils
• tel quel

Pronoun

tel ?

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

Derived terms

• tellement

Further reading

• “tel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English tel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [te?????]

Noun

tel(??) • (teru) 

1. telephone
2. telephone number

Verb

tel(??)?? • (teru suru) suru (stem tel(??)? (teru shi), past tel(??)?? (teru shita))

1. (informal) to call (contact by telephone)

Conjugation

Old French

Etymology

From Latin t?lis.

Adjective

tel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tele)

1. such a
   • circa 1050, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland (Oxford manuscript)

     Unques nuls hom tel chevaler ne vit

     Never has a man seen such a knight

Declension

Related terms

• itel

Old Norse

Verb

tel

1. first-person singular present indicative of telja
2. second-person singular imperative of telja

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????????? (tel) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (taila).

Noun

tel (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)

1. oil

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /têl/

Noun

t?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (obsolete) thin wire

   Ne biju se tako pobinjice, ve? se biju od tela kandžijom

2. silver or golden thread or string for sewing or embroidering
   • 1906, Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova:

     Pustila dugu kosu niz ple?a i preko grudi, a niz dugu kosu pušta se tel, blešti i treperi tel me?u crnom bujnom kosom, pa mu izgleda Zona sjajna i sve?ana kao zavetna ikona.

Declension

References

• 1957, Škalji? Abdulah, Turcizmi u narodnom govoru, Sarajevo
• 1976, ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ??????, VI. ?????, ?-? (???????), ????? ?????????? ??????, ?????? ??????, ???? ???, ???. 171

Tatar

Noun

tel

1. tongue; language

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ??? (tel). See it for more.

Noun

tel (definite accusative teli, plural teller)

1. wire
2. thread
3. string, chord

4. telegram

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of telefon.

Noun

tel

1. Abbreviation of telefon.

Declension

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “tel”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

Volapük

Numeral

tel

1. two

Derived terms

• telüm

West Frisian

Adverb

tel

1. (archaic) soon

Further reading

• “tel (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011