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English

Etymology

Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /t?/

Article

teh

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of the, for humorous, sarcastic or facetious effect.

   This is teh game for your new box!

   You are teh haxor!

Usage notes

• 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.

Anagrams

• -eth, ETH, Eth, Eth., HET, eth, eth-, het, the, the-

Albanian

Etymology

A prefixed derivative of eh.

Noun

teh m (indefinite plural teha, definite singular teha, definite plural tehat)

1. blade

Related terms

• eh

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *t(n)?h, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t?i? ~ *t?ih ~ *t?i?h (“earth, ground”); cognate with Koho tiah (“earth, ground”), Mon ?? (t?e?, “earth, ground, land”), Khmer ?? (d?y, “earth, ground, land”), Semai tiiq (“earth, ground, soil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?h/

Noun

teh

1. earth, ground
2. dirt

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• te

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?/

Pronoun

teh

1. (emphatic) you (singular), thou

Synonyms

• tehhuatl

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay teh (“tea”), from Min Nan ? (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?h/
• Hyphenation: tèh

Noun

tèh (first-person possessive tehku, second-person possessive tehmu, third-person possessive tehnya)

1. tea

Derived terms

Further reading

• “teh” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Min Nan ? (tê) (Amoy dialect)

Noun

teh (Jawi spelling ????, informal 1st possessive tehku, impolite 2nd possessive tehmu, 3rd possessive tehnya)

1. tea

Synonyms

• ca

Derived terms

• teh tarik

Descendants

• Indonesian: teh
• ? Dutch: thee
  • Afrikaans: tee
  • ? West Frisian: tee
  • ? Dutch Low Saxon: thee
  • ? Danish: te
    • ? Faroese: te
  • ? English: tea
    • Gullah: tea
    • Jamaican Creole: tea
    • ? Abenaki: ti
    • ? Chickasaw: tii'
    • ? Cocopa: ?i·
    • ? Cornish: té
    • ? Cree:

      Canadian syllabics: ?? (tiy)

      Latin: tiy

    • ? Inuktitut: ? (tii)
    • ? Irish: tae
    • ? Maori: t?
    • ? Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
    • ? Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
    • ? Panamint: tii
    • ? Telugu: ?? (??)
    • ? Unami: ti
    • ? Welsh: te
  • ? French: thé
    • Haitian Creole: te
    • Louisiana Creole French: thé
    • ? Armenian: ??? (t?ey)
    • ? Coeur d'Alene: liiti
    • ? Corsican: tè
    • ? Greek: ????? (téïon) (with neuter suffix -ion)
    • ? Italian: tè
      • ? Romansch: te, té, tè
    • ? Norman: thée
    • ? Occitan: tè
    • ? Romansch: te, té, tè
    • ? South Slavey: lidí
    • ? Tiri: tee
    • ? Walloon: té
  • ? German: Tee
    • ? German Low German: Tee
      • Plautdietsch: Tee
    • ? Estonian: tee
    • ? Hunsrik: Tee
    • ? Lower Sorbian: tej
    • ? Romansch: te, té, tè
    • ? Saterland Frisian: Tee
    • ? Silesian: tyj
      • ? Slovene: te (dialectal)
    • ? Silesian German: Tee
    • ? Vilamovian: tyy
    • ? Zipser German: Tee
  • ? Icelandic: te
  • ? New Latin: thea
    • ? Latin: herba thea (“herb tea”)
      • ? Polish: herbata
        • ? Belarusian: ???????? (harbáta)
        • ? Kashubian: arbata, rabata, erbata, rebata
        • ? Lithuanian: arbata
        • ? Samogitian: erbeta
        • ? Ukrainian: ???????? (herbáta), ????????? (herbátka)
  • ? Latvian: t?ja
  • ? Norwegian: te
  • ? Sranan Tongo: te
  • ? Swedish: te, the, thé
    • ? Finnish: tee

Min Nan

Slavey

Noun

teh

1. water

References

• Keren Rice, A grammar of Slave (1989)

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

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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
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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