thé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "the"

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê). Doublet of chai.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /te/
Audio: (file)
Homophones: T, tes
Rhymes: -e

Noun

thé m (plural thés)

tea (especially made from leaves of the tea plant)

Usage notes

In the strict sense thé only applies to tea made from leaves of the tea plant such as green tea or black tea; for any other type of herbal tea tisane or infusion are more commonly used.

Derived terms

Descendants

Haitian Creole: te
Louisiana Creole: thé
→ Armenian: թեյ (tʻey)
→ Coeur d'Alene: liiti
→ Corsican: tè
→ Greek: τέϊον (téïon) (with neuter suffix -ion)
→ Italian: tè, té (misspelling)
- → Romansch: te, té, tè
→ Norman: thée
→ Occitan: tè
→ Ojibwe: nitii
→ Romansch: te, té, tè
→ South Slavey: lidí
→ Tîrî: tee
→ Walloon: té

Further reading

thé on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
“thé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Irish

Verb

thé

lenited form of té

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /θʲeː/

Adjective

thé

lenited form of té