# tê
## Hokkien

* For pronunciation and definitions of tê – see 茶 (“tea; tea; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 茶).

## Macanese
### Preposition

tê
* Aphetic form of atê
    Sorte quê APIM já oferecê bilête pa iou; si nunca, sâm atirâ sapeca tê lap-sap.Luckily, APIM offered me tickets; otherwise, it would be like throwing my money away.(literally, “...it is throwing money to the trash”)

#### Derived terms

* tê qui

### References

* https://www.scribd.com/document/520896426/Papia-Cristam-Di-Macau

## Mandarin
### Romanization

tê
* Nonstandard spelling of tê̄.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -eː

#### Verb

tê
* third-person singular present of hatin

### Etymology 2

From Contraction of di wê.

#### Preposition

tê
* in it

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈte/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈte/
* Homophone: ter (some accents)
* Rhymes: -e
* Hyphenation: tê

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tê m (plural tês)
* tee (name of the Latin letter T, t)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tê
* Apocopic form of ter; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
* Eye dialect spelling of ter, representing Brazil Portuguese.

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [te˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [tej˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [tej˧˧]

### Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 痺 (SV: ti).

#### Adjective

tê • (犀, 𤷒, 躋)
* numb
    Ui da tê giò.Ouchie, my legs are numb.

##### Derived terms

* tái tê
* tê buốt
* tê cóng
* tê dại
* tê liệt
* tê rần
* tê tái
* thuốc tê

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

tê • (儕, 󱬴)
* (Central Vietnam) that; there; those
    Tui muốn cái tê.I want that one.

#### See also

Vietnamese demonstratives :
| | Proximal (*-iː) | Distal 1 (*-iːʔ) | Distal 2 (*-əːʔ) | Distal 3/ Remote (*-ɔːʔ) | Interrogative (rime was a rounded back vowel) |
| Place, attributive$^1$ n- | ni nì này/nầy nây | nấy | nớ | nọ (nó) | nào |
| Place, nominal$^2$ đ- | đây | đấy (ấy) | — | đó | đâu |
| Manner r- | ri rày | — | rứa | — | ru sao$^3$ |
| Extent 1$^4$ b- | bây | bấy | — | — | bao |
| Extent 2$^5$ v- | vầy | vậy | — | — | — |
| $^1$ Originally can only follow a nominal (being used attributively), hence nơi này (“this place; here”), nơi nào (“where”) (no longer completely true in the modern language). $^2$ Can be used on its own/is itself nominal, hence đây (“here”), đâu (“where”). $^3$ From earlier *C-raːw (where *C is nonspecific consonant). $^4$ Placed before the head: bây nhiêu (“this much”), bấy nhiêu (“that much”), bao nhiêu (“how much”). $^5$ Placed after the head: nhanh vầy (“this fast”), nhanh vậy (“that fast/so fast”). ||||||
| Visibility/evidentiality$^6$ ||||||
| | Distal (ngang) | Distal (ngang) | Distal (ngang) | Remote (huyền) | Remote (huyền) | Remote (huyền) |
| Northern-Southern | kia (cơ) | kia (cơ) | kia (cơ) | kìa (cờ) | kìa (cờ) | kìa (cờ) |
| Central | tê | tê | tê | tề | tề | tề |
| $^6$ Originally, these demonstratives might have been used to assert that something is visible and/or verifiable. They have been bleached quite thoroughly and currently are usually used like other distal demonstratives. The biggest trace of their evidentiality might be in their usage as final particles, often in reduced forms cơ/cờ: [t]ừ đấy về tới Hà Nội, còn những ba cái cầu nữa cơ mà! ("From there to Hanoi, there're still three more bridges to cross!") (Ba ngày luân lạc, 1943). ||||||

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from French té.

#### Noun

tê
* The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.

##### Synonyms

* tờ

### Etymology 4

Sino-Vietnamese word from 犀.

#### Alternative forms

* (obsolete) tây

#### Noun

(classifier con) tê
* (obsolete) rhinoceros
    Synonym: tê giác
    sừng tê ― rhino horn

## Welsh
### Noun

tê m (uncountable)
* Misspelling of te.