tee

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

• From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).
• (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.

tee (plural tees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T/t.
   • 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:

     The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.

   • 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant:

     They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.

   • 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5

     ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".

2. Something shaped like the letter T.

   Hyponyms: tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed

   angles and tees

4. (clothing) T-shirt.

   Alternative form: T

   Brendan pulled a black pocket tee over his head.

5. (computing) The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.

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

1. (computing) To redirect output to multiple destinations.
   • 1997, Robin Burk, David B. Horvath, UNIX Unleashed, page 615:

     […] teeing via multiple redirects (ls > file1 > file2) […]

• (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

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, back-formation from obsolete Scots teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.^[1] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

tee (plural tees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
   • 2019 November 3, Liam de Carme, “Boks, you beauties”, in Sunday Times‎^[1]:

     Pollard, who went into the semifinals with an unsatisfactory 63% return from the kicking tee, turned it around splendidly against Wales and he continued that form despite missing his first attempt in the final.

3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink.
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

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^[2]:

     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.

• tee up

From Middle English teen, from Old English tēon (which was contracted from earlier tēohan, from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan.

tee

1. (obsolete) To tteach, educate, train, bring up.

From Burmese ထီး (hti:, “umbrella”).

tee (plural tees)

1. A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “tee”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• EET

From Dutch thee (in the past commonly spelled tee).

• IPA^(key): /tɪə̯/

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tee (uncountable)

1. tea

   Kom ons gaan drink tee.

   Let's go drink some tea.

• rooibostee
• teekoppie

tee m (plural teeën, diminutive teetje n)

1. obsolete spelling of thee

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

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. road, way

Declension of tee (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tee	teed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tee
genitive			teede
partitive		teed	teid teesid
illative		teesse	teedesse teisse
inessive		tees	teedes teis
elative		teest	teedest teist
allative		teele	teedele teile
adessive		teel	teedel teil
ablative		teelt	teedelt teilt
translative		teeks	teedeks teiks
terminative		teeni	teedeni
essive		teena	teedena
abessive		teeta	teedeta
comitative		teega	teedega

• kiirtee
• maantee
• raudtee
• umbtee
• kruusatee

From German Tee, ultimately from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. tea

Declension of tee (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tee	teed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tee
genitive			teede
partitive		teed	teid teesid
illative		teesse	teedesse teisse
inessive		tees	teedes teis
elative		teest	teedest teist
allative		teele	teedele teile
adessive		teel	teedel teil
ablative		teelt	teedelt teilt
translative		teeks	teedeks teiks
terminative		teeni	teedeni
essive		teena	teedena
abessive		teeta	teedeta
comitative		teega	teedega

• liivatee

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

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

tee

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

Borrowed from Swedish te, itself from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee
• Hyphenation^(key): tee

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)

   Synonyms: (dialectal) saikka, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaiju, tsaju, tsaikka, tsaikku, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)

   Haluaisitko teetä?’’

   Would you like some tea?

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

   Synonym: teelaatu

   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)

   Synonym: juoma

   yrttitee ― herbal tea

   kamomillatee ― camomile tea

   minttutee ― mint tea

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

   Synonyms: teekupillinen, kuppi teetä

The plural forms of tee (other than the nominative) are identical to those of e.g. tie, so for clarity, a more precise synonym for the word tee may be used instead in these cases.

• “tee”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023
• tee on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

From Latin tē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈt̪e̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee
• Hyphenation^(key): tee

tee

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːˣ/, [ˈt̪e̞ː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): tee
• Hyphenation^(key): tee

tee

1. inflection of tehdä:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present imperative connegative

• eet

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tee m (plural tees)

1. (sports) tee

• “tee”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tee

1. Wiesemann spelling of där

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje. Cognates include Finnish tie and Estonian tee.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈte̝ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

tee

1. street
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Harkkaisin teen päälle, jää puuttui jalan alle.

     I stepped onto the street, ice got under my feet.

2. way, path
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa) [Geography: textbook for Ingrian elementary school third grade (first part)], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Tiijussimma teen ja läksimmä.

     We recognised the way and we went.

Declension of tee (type 8/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	tee	teet
genitive	teen	teijen
partitive	teetä	teitä
illative	teehe	teihe
inessive	tees	teis
elative	teest	teist
allative	teelle	teille
adessive	teel	teil
ablative	teelt	teilt
translative	teeks	teiks
essive	teennä, teen	teinnä, tein
exessive1)	teent	teint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• (street): uulitsa, katu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈte̝ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

tee

1. inflection of tehä:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. second-person singular imperative connegative

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 583

From Old Dutch *tēa, from Proto-West Germanic *taihā.

têe f

1. toe

• Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
• Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

• “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

tee

1. termite mound

From English tee.

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-er, definite plural tee-ene)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

• “tee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English tee.

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: ti

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-ar, definite plural tee-ane)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

• “tee” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ete

teë

1. alternative spelling of té

Borrowed from English tee.

tee c or n (indeclinable)

1. (golf) tee, teeing ground (area from which the first shot on a hole is hit)

   Synonym: utslagsplats

2. (curling) tee (center of a curling target)

• peg
• slå ut (“tee off”)
• utslag (“tee shot”)

• tee in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tee in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tee in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Akin to Tetum to'o.

tee

1. to come, to arrive

Likely from Malay teh, from Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect)

• IPA^(key): [teː]

tee

1. tea

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

See the Tetum noun teen.

tee

1. to defecate, to excrete

tee

1. tea

• Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

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

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈteː/, [ˈteː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: tee

tee

1. way, road

Declension of tee (type I/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	tee	teed
genitive	tee	teije
partitive	teete	teite
illative	tehhe, tehese	teise
inessive	teez	teiz
elative	teesse	teisse
allative	teele	teile
adessive	teelle	teille
ablative	teelte	teilte
translative	teessi	teissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Borrowing from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

• IPA^(key): /teː/

tee c (no plural)

1. tea

• “tee”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011