te-

tē-

1. Indefinite animate object: someone; somebody; everyone; people.
2. Indefinite animate possessor: someone's; somebody's.

• tla-

From Middle Dutch te-, from Old Dutch *ti-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-.

te-

1. (obsolete, no longer productive) Created verbs with a sense of ‘in pieces, apart, asunder’, or with intensive force.

   tekappen (“to hew into pieces”)

   terijten (“to rip apart”)

   tesplitsen (“to split into pieces”)

From Old Dutch *ti-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-.

te-

1. Creates verbs with a sense of ‘in pieces, apart, asunder’, or with intensive force.

From to (“in the direction of”), from Old English tō.

te-

1. Alternative form of to-

• “tọ̄̆- pref. (1.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 April 2018.

From Old English tō-, te- (“apart, asunder”).

te-

1. Alternative form of to-

• “tọ̄̆- pref. (2.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 April 2018.

te- (unstressed prefix)

1. Alternative form of to-

From Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-.

te-

1. Creates verbs with a sense of ‘apart, in piece, asunder’, or with intensive force.

   tebrekan (“to break apart”)

   tebrestan (“to tear up”)

   tedēlian (“to separate”)

   tefallan (“to decay”)

   tefaran (“to decay, to consume”)

   tegangan (“to dissolve”)

   teglīdan (“to glide away”)

   tekīnan (“to dissolve”)

   tekliovan (“to tear apart”)

   telātan (“to disperse”)

   telōsian (“to resolve”)

   teskrīdan (“to dissolve”)

   teslahan (“to destroy”)

   tesprengian (“to smash”)

   testōrian (“to destroy”)

   testōtan (“to pound”)

   teswingan (“to disperse”)

   tewerpan (“to disperse, to destroy”)