tej

English

A berele containing unfiltered tej.

Alternative forms

• tedge, tedje, tedj

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ጠጅ (ṭäǧ, “honey wine, mead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛd͡ʒ]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tej (usually uncountable, plural 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.

   • 2024 January 10, Lenore Adkins, “Ethiopian Honey Wine Gets the Royal Treatment at Negus Winery and Meadery in Alexandria”, in Eater DC‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-03-03:

     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.

Anagrams

• Jet, jet

Albanian

Etymology

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

Adverb

tej

1. far
2. beyond

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛj]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛj

Noun

tej (countable and uncountable, plural tejek)

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 farm

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tej	tejek
accusative	tejet	tejeket
dative	tejnek	tejeknek
instrumental	tejjel	tejekkel
causal-final	tejért	tejekért
translative	tejjé	tejekké
terminative	tejig	tejekig
essive-formal	tejként	tejekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tejben	tejekben
superessive	tejen	tejeken
adessive	tejnél	tejeknél
illative	tejbe	tejekbe
sublative	tejre	tejekre
allative	tejhez	tejekhez
elative	tejből	tejekből
delative	tejről	tejekről
ablative	tejtől	tejektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	tejé	tejeké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tejéi	tejekéi

Possessive forms of tej
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tejem	tejeim
2nd person sing.	tejed	tejeid
3rd person sing.	teje	tejei
1st person plural	tejünk	tejeink
2nd person plural	tejetek	tejeitek
3rd person plural	tejük	tejeik

Derived terms

• tejes

Compound words with this term at the beginning

• tejcukor
• tejcsokoládé
• tejfel
• tejfog
• tejföl
• tejgazdaság
• tejpor
• tejszín
• tejtermék
• Tejút
• tejüveg
• tejüzem

Compound words with this term at the end

• aludttej
• anyatej
• juhtej
• kecsketej
• kókusztej
• mandulatej
• naptej
• szójatej
• tehéntej

Expressions

• tejben-vajban füröszt

See also

• aludttej
• író
• joghurt
• savó

Further reading

• 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

Anagrams

• ejt

Lower Sorbian

tej

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛj/, [tej]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tej m inan

1. tea

Declension

Declension of tej

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tej	teja	teje
Genitive	teja	tejowu	tejow
Dative	tejoju	tejoma	tejam
Accusative	tej	teja	teje
Instrumental	tejom	tejoma	tejami
Locative	teju	tejoma	tejach

Synonyms

• čaj (literary)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Determiner

tej

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

Etymology 3

Noun

tej m inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter t/T.

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛj/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛj
• Syllabification: tej

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronoun

tej f

1. genitive/dative/locative singular of ta

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronoun

tej

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

Further reading

• tej in Polish dictionaries at PWN