Alternative forms

• tedge, tedje, tedj

Etymology

Borrowed from AmharicCategory:English terms borrowed from Amharic#TEJCategory:English terms derived from Amharic#TEJ ጠጅ (ṭäǧ, “honey wine, mead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛd͡ʒ]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TEJ

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#TEJ

Noun

tej (usually uncountable, plural tej)Category:English lemmas#TEJCategory:English nouns#TEJCategory:English uncountable nouns#TEJCategory:English countable nouns#TEJCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#TEJCategory:English indeclinable nouns#TEJCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#TEJCategory:Pages with entries#TEJCategory:Pages with 5 entries#TEJ

1. 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.

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   • 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 3 March 2024:

     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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#TEJ

Anagrams

• Jet, jet

Alternative forms

• (Gheg) pertei (“sopra, di là”)^[1]

Etymology

From Proto-AlbanianCategory:Albanian terms inherited from Proto-Albanian#TEJCategory:Albanian terms derived from Proto-Albanian#TEJ *tai e, a parallel formation to tëhu.^[2]

Adverb

tejCategory:Albanian lemmas#TEJCategory:Albanian adverbs#TEJCategory:Albanian entries with incorrect language header#TEJCategory:Pages with entries#TEJCategory:Pages with 5 entries#TEJ

1. far
2. beyond

References

Etymology

Borrowing from an IranianCategory:Hungarian terms borrowed from Iranian languages#TEJCategory:Hungarian terms derived from Iranian languages#TEJ language, compare Ossetian дӕйын (dæjyn, “to suck”), Middle Persian [script needed]Category:Requests for native script for Middle Persian terms#TEJ (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-UgricCategory:Hungarian terms inherited from Proto-Ugric#TEJCategory:Hungarian terms derived from Proto-Ugric#TEJ *täjɜ.^[1] The earlier nominative was té, lost in favor of the oblique stem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛj]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#TEJ

• Audio:

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  Category:Hungarian terms with audio pronunciation#TEJ
• Rhymes: -ɛjCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛj#TEJCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɛj/1 syllable#TEJ

Noun

tej (countable and uncountableCategory:Hungarian countable and uncountable nouns#TEJ, plural tejek)Category:Hungarian lemmas#TEJCategory:Hungarian nouns#TEJCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#TEJCategory:Pages with entries#TEJCategory:Pages with 5 entries#TEJ

1. milk (a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young)
2. milk (a white or whitish liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans)
3. (in compound words) dairy

   tejgazdaság ― dairy farmCategory:Hungarian terms with collocations#TEJ

See also

References

Further reading

• tej in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Anagrams

• ejt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛj/Category:Lower Sorbian terms with IPA pronunciation#TEJ
• Rhymes: -ɛjCategory:Rhymes:Lower Sorbian/ɛj#TEJCategory:Rhymes:Lower Sorbian/ɛj/1 syllable#TEJ
• Syllabification: tej

Etymology 1

Borrowed from GermanCategory:Lower Sorbian terms borrowed from German#TEJCategory:Lower Sorbian terms derived from German#TEJ Tee, from HokkienCategory:Lower Sorbian terms derived from Hokkien#TEJ 茶 (tê), from Proto-Sino-TibetanCategory:Lower Sorbian terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan#TEJ *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology 3

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 Category:dsb:Beverages#TEJ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛj/Category:Polish 1-syllable words#TEJCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#TEJ

• Audio:

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  Category:Polish terms with audio pronunciation#TEJ
• Rhymes: -ɛjCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɛj#TEJCategory:Rhymes:Polish/ɛj/1 syllable#TEJ
• Syllabification: tej

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Polish entries#TEJ

Further reading

• Waldemar Wierzba (2013), “tej”, in Słownik Poznańskie słowa i ausdrucki (in Polish), 1st edition, Mierzyn: Albus, →ISBN, page 272