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 te-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-. Compare German zer-.

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”)

• Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “te-”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

te-

1. alternative form of ter-

te-

1. Rōmaji transcription of て

te-

1. forms the permissive mood

   tedirbie (“to let someone work”)

   teaugie (“to let something grow”)

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.

te-

1. alternative form of to- (“towards”)

te-

1. alternative form of to- (“apart”)

• dualic
  • tew- (before a-stem nouns)

From Proto-North Iroquoian *teʔ.

te-

1. negation prefix, used with iah

From Proto-North Iroquoian *te, ultimately from Proto-Iroquoian *teː.

te-

1. dualic prefix
   1. with nouns, indicates two of something
   2. forms superlatives with aonhá’a

• Nora Deering, Helga H. Delisle (1976) Mohawk: A teaching grammar (preliminary version), Quebec: Manitou College, pages 57, 146, 205-206

• IPA^(key): /te/

te-

1. alternative form of tō-

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”)

• IPA^(key): [te-]

te-

1. Allomorph of t- used for stems that begin with a consonant other than w and have a first vowel e.