# tej
## English
### Alternative forms

* tedge, tedje, tedj

### Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ጠጅ (ṭäǧ, “honey wine, mead”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛd͡ʒ]
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

tej (usually uncountable, plural tej)
* A type of honey wine or mead from Ethiopia and Eritrea typically served in a specialized glass vessel known as a berele.
** 2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42:She smells the mingling odors of sweat and tej inside the hot room.
** 2024 January 10, Lenore Adkins, “Ethiopian Honey Wine Gets the Royal Treatment at Negus Winery and Meadery in Alexandria”, in Eater DC‎, archived from the original on 2024-03-03:Amharic for “honey wine,” tej is an Ethiopian drink that kings, queens, and other royals have enjoyed for thousands of years. […] ¶ Tej is an ancient, fermented spirit mostly made from raw honey, water, and wild yeast. […] ¶ They toasted each other with the tej she brought.

### Anagrams

* Jet, jet

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tai e, a parallel formation to tëhu.

### Adverb

tej
* far
* beyond

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “tej”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 451

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowing from an Iranian language, compare Ossetian дӕйын (dæjyn, “to suck”), Middle Persian [script needed] (dāyag, “nurse”), Persian دایه (dâye, “nurse”), Northern Kurdish da (“mother”), Sanskrit धयति (dhayati, “to suck, drink”). Cognate also with old Southern Mansi -тай (-taj) (in сыртай (syrtaj, “milk”)), both possibly via Proto-Ugric *täjɜ. The earlier nominative was té, lost in favor of the oblique stem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɛj]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛj

### Noun

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tejek)
* milk (a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young)
* milk (a white or whitish liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans)
* (in compound words) dairy
    tejgazdaság ― dairy farm

#### Derived terms

* tejes
* tejcukor
* tejcsokoládé
* tejfel
* tejfog
* tejföl
* tejgazdaság
* tejpor
* tejszín
* tejtermék
* Tejút
* tejüveg
* tejüzem
* aludttej
* anyatej
* juhtej
* kecsketej
* kókusztej
* mandulatej
* naptej
* szójatej
* tehéntej
* tejben-vajban füröszt

### See also

* aludttej
* író
* joghurt
* savó

### References

* ↑ Katz, Hartmut. 1991. "Altsüdwogulisches". — Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 50, pp. 81–91.

### Further reading

* tej in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

### Anagrams

* ejt

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛj/, [tej]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Tee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

#### Noun

tej m inan
* tea

##### Synonyms

* čaj (literary)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Determiner

tej
* inflection of ten:
** dative/locative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative dual

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

tej m inan
* The name of the Latin-script letter t/T.

### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) a, bej, cej, čet, ćej, dej, ej, ět, ef, gej, ha, cha, i, jot, ka, eł, el, em, en, ejn, o, pej, er, ejŕ, es, eš, śej, tej, u, wej, y, zet, žet, źej

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛj/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛj
* Syllabification: tej

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronoun

tej f
* genitive/dative/locative singular of ta

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronoun

tej
* (Poznań, colloquial) you, the second person singular pronoun

### Further reading

* tej in Polish dictionaries at PWN