English

Proper noun

Tee

1. An Ogoni language spoken in Nigeria.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Tee terms

German

Etymology 1

From Min Nan 茶.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teː/, [tʰeː]
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

Tee m ‎(genitive Tees, plural Tees)

1. tea

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English tee.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Tee n ‎(genitive Tees, plural Tees)

1. (golf) tee

Zipser German

Noun

Tee

1. tea (drink)

References

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

English

Noun

tee ‎(plural tees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
2. Something shaped like the letter T. Found in compounds such as tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed, tee pipe fitting (T-splitter), tee computing command...

   angles and tees

3. T-shirt

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

Derived terms

• teevee

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English teen, from Old English tēon ‎(“to pull, tug, draw, drag, entice, allure, induce, lead, bring, rear, educate, attract, arrogate, bring forth, produce, restrain, betake oneself to, go, roam”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną ‎(“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- ‎(“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tja ‎(“to pull, draw”), Low German teen ‎(“to draw, pull”), German ziehen ‎(“to draw, pull, drag”), Latin dūcō ‎(“draw, pull, lead”) and Albanian nduk ‎(“to draw (out), pull up, pluck”).

Verb

tee ‎(third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past teed or tow, past participle teed or town)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; lead.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To draw away; go; proceed.

Derived terms

• betee
• fortee

Related terms

• tow
• tug
• wanton

Etymology 3

First attested in the 17th century with the form teaz.

Noun

tee ‎(plural tees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (golf, baseball) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is hit.
3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Derived terms

• tee ball
• tee off
• tee on
• tee up

Translations

Verb

tee ‎(third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee
   • 1909, Walter J. Travis, Practical Golf:

     If at any hole a competitor play his first stroke from outside the limits of the teeing-ground, he shall count that stroke, tee a ball, and play his second stroke from within these limits.

Synonyms

• tee up

Anagrams

• eet , EET

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.

Noun

tee ‎(genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. road, way

Declension

Derived terms

• raudtee

Etymology 2

Noun

tee ‎(genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. tea

Declension

Derived terms

• liivatee

Etymology 3

Noun

tee ‎(genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

Etymology 4

Verb

tee

1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
2. Present connegative form of tegema.

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

1. (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)

   Mene kauppaan ja osta 'teetä.

   Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.

2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)

   Haluaisitko teetä?

   Would you like some tea?

3. (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)

   Darjeeling on intialainen tee.

   Darjeeling is a tea from India.

4. (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)

   yrttitee, kamomillatee, minttutee

   herb tea, camomile tea, mint tea

5. (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)

Declension

Usage notes

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie ‎(“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a synonym for the word tee in those cases.

Synonyms

• (drink made of Camella sinensis): saikka, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)
• (variety of the tea plant): teelaatu
• (cup of tea): teekupillinen, kuppi teetä

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee

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

Declension

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˣ/
• Hyphenation: tee

Verb

tee

1. Present indicative connegative form of tehdä.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of tehdä.
3. Second-person singular imperative connegative form of tehdä.

Old Irish

Adjective

tee

1. Alternative spelling of té

Mutation

Tetum

Verb

tee

1. to defecate

Tiri

Noun

tee

1. tea

References

• Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Noun

tee ‎(genitive tee, partitive [please provide])

1. way, road

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• "tee" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

Võro

Noun

tee ‎(genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.