# tei
## Brooke's Point Palawano
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqi, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqi. Compare Indonesian tahi, Malagasy tay, Palauan dach and Samoan tae.

### Noun

tei
* feces; manure

## Chang
### Noun

tei
* water

### References

* Walter Thomas French, Northern Naga: A Tibeto-Burman Mesolanguage, volume 2 (1983), page 567: Ph yuŋ le, Ch tei la 'thirsty' (Ph yuŋ/Ch tei = 'water')

## Fala
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *tei, from Latin tuus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtei̯/
* Rhymes: -ei̯
* Syllabification: tei

### Determiner

tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)
* Second-person singular possessive determiner; your

### Pronoun

tei m sg (feminine túa, masculine plural teis, feminine plural túas)
* Second-person singular possessive pronoun; yours

### See also

$^1$ Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

### References

* Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin tilia, changed into a masculine. Compare Italian tiglio, Romanian tei, Catalan tell.

### Noun

tei m
* lime tree, linden

## Ido
### Noun

tei
* plural of teo

## Japanese
### Romanization

tei
* Rōmaji transcription of てい

## Latgalian
### Etymology

Akin to Latvian tie and Lithuanian tie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtʲɛ̀i̯]
* Hyphenation: tei

### Pronoun

tei
* that (feminine)

#### See also
### References

* Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 37

## Livonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *täi.

### Noun

tei
* louse

#### Declension
## Mandarin
### Romanization

tei
* Nonstandard spelling of tēi.

#### 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.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tei
* Alternative form of teye (“cord, chain”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

tei
* Alternative form of þei (“they”)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

tei
* imperative of teia

## Obokuitai
### Noun

tei
* child

### Further reading

* Heljä & Duane Clouse, Kirikiri and the Western Lakes Plains Languages (1993)

## Old French
### Pronoun

tei
* (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of toi
** c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou‎:Li Angles Dex li respundi: Tais teiThe Angel of God said to him: shut up

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin tilia, turned masculine in assimilation to other tree names, or through Vulgar Latin *tilius. Compare Italian tiglio and Friulian tei.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtej/
* Rhymes: -ej

### Noun

tei m (plural tei)
* linden tree

#### Derived terms

* Poiana Teiului
* teios

### Further reading

* tei in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
* Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1982), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎, volume 11, part 2, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 155–156

## Samoan
### Noun

tei
* younger relative

## Scots
### Noun

tei (plural teis)
* (Southern Scots) tea

## Tobati
### Numeral

tei
* one

### References

* Mark Donohue, Tobati, in John Lynch, Malcolm Ross, Terry Crowley, The Oceanic Languages (Curzon Press, Londres, 2002)

## Tolomako
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *bei.

### Noun

tei
* water

### References

* Darrell T. Tryon, New Hebrides languages: an internal classification (1976), page 311

## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowing from English tie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtei̯/
* Rhymes: -ei̯

### Noun

tei m or f (plural teis)
* necktie

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.