Tee

See also: tee, teè, and têe

English

Proper noun

Tee

  1. An Ogoni language spoken in Nigeria.

See also
  • Wiktionary's coverage of Tee terms

Anagrams

German

Etymology 1

From Min Nan 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /teː/, [tʰeː]
  • audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun

Tee m (genitive Tees, plural Tees)

  1. tea (drink made by infusing parts of a plant, especially leaves or buds of Camellia sinensis, in water)

Declension
Declension of Tee
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Tee die Tees
genitive eines des Tees der Tees
dative einem dem Tee den Tees
accusative einen den Tee die Tees

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → German Low German: Tee
    • Plautdietsch: Tee
  • → Estonian: tee
  • → Hunsrik: Tee
  • → Lower Sorbian: tej
  • → Romansch: te, té, tè
  • → Saterland Frisian: Tee
  • → Silesian: tyj
    • → Slovene: te (dialectal)
  • → Silesian German: Tee
  • → Vilamovian: tyy
  • → Zipser German: Tee

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tee.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tiː/, [tʰiː]
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

Tee n (genitive Tees, plural Tees)

  1. (golf) tee

Hunsrik
Tee

Etymology

From German Tee, from Min Nan 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tʰeː/

Noun

Tee m (plural Tee)

  1. maté (hot drink made from the Ilex paraguarensis plant)
    Vaam-mer en Tee drinke?
    Let's drink some maté?

Further reading

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From German Tee, from Min Nan 茶 (tê).

Noun

Tee m

  1. tea

Zipser German

Etymology

From Min Nan 茶 (tê).

Noun

Tee

  1. tea (drink)

References
  • Anton-Joseph Ilk, Zipser Volksgut aus dem Wassertal (1990), page 141
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