tej

• tedge, tedje, tedj

Borrowed from Amharic ጠጀ (ṭäǧä, “honey wine, mead”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛd͡ʒ]

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tej)

1. A style of mead or honey wine common to Ethiopia and Eritrea.
   • 2019, Maaza Mengiste , The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 49:

     She smells the mingling odors of sweat and tej inside the hot room.

• tej on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Jet, jet

From Proto-Albanian *tai e, a parallel formation to tëhu.[1]

tej

1. far
2. beyond

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.[1] The earlier nominative was té, lost in favor of the oblique stem.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛj]
• Rhymes: -ɛj

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tejek)

1. milk

• 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

• ejt

• IPA^(key): /tɛj/, [tej]

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

tej m

1. tea

• čaj (literary)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tej

1. inflection of ten:
   1. dative/locative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

• IPA^(key): /tɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Syllabification: tej

tej f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of ta

tej

1. (Poznań, colloquial) you, the second person singular pronoun

• tej in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tej in Polish dictionaries at PWN