Aberele containing unfilteredtej . Borrowed fromAmharic ጠጅ ( ṭäǧ ,“ honey wine, mead ” ) .
tej (usuallyuncountable ,plural tej )
A type ofhoney wine ormead fromEthiopia andEritrea typically served in a specializedglass vessel known as aberele .2024 January 10, Lenore Adkins, “Ethiopian Honey Wine Gets the Royal Treatment at Negus Winery and Meadery in Alexandria”, inEater DC [1] , archived fromthe original on3 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 thetej she brought.
FromProto-Albanian *tai e , a parallel formation totëhu .[ 2]
tej
far beyond ^ Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 103 , by P. Jak Junkut, 1895,Sckoder ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998 ), “tej ”, inAlbanian Etymological Dictionary , Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill,→ISBN , page451 Borrowing from anIranian language, compareOssetian 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 oldSouthern Mansi -тай ( -taj ) (inсыртай ( syrtaj ,“ milk ” ) ), both possibly viaProto-Ugric *täjɜ .[ 1] The earlier nominative wasté , lost in favor of the oblique stem.
tej (countable anduncountable ,plural tejek )
milk ( a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young ) milk ( a white or whitish liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans ) ( in compound words ) dairy tej gazdaság ―dairy farmCompound words with this term at the beginning
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^ Katz, Hartmut. 1991. "Altsüdwogulisches". —Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 50 , pp. 81–91. 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 . tej IPA (key ) : /ˈtɛj/ Rhymes:-ɛj Syllabification:tej Borrowed fromGerman Tee , fromHokkien 茶 ( tê ) , fromProto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la ( “ leaf, tea ” ) .
tej m inan
tea See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
tej
inflection often : dative / locative feminine singular nominative / accusative dual tej m inan
The name of theLatin-script lettert /T . ( 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 IPA (key ) : /ˈtɛj/ Rhymes:-ɛj Syllabification:tej See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
tej f
genitive / dative / locative singular ofta (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
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( Poznań ) vocative singular ofty ( “ hey you ” ) Waldemar Wierzba (2013 ), “tej ”, inSłownik Poznańskie słowa i ausdrucki (in Polish), 1st edition, Mierzyn: Albus,→ISBN , page272