tiee

• tieë (Veldeke spelling)
• tie̩ (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling)
• tsää (Eupen, borrowed from German)
• tieech (older variant, still prevalent in Selfkant)

From earlier tiech (whence also Selfkant tieech), from *tēh, from *tāhi (cf. Old High German zāhi), from Proto-West Germanic *tą̄h(ī). Compare German zäh, Dutch taai, English tough.

• IPA^(key): /tiə̯/
• Rhymes: -iə̯

tiee (masculine tiee, feminine tiee, neuter tiee, comparative tieer or tier, superlative tieeste) (German-based spelling)

1. not easily yielding, resilient
   1. (of beings) tough, tenacious, dogged
   2. (of food) chewy, stringy
   3. (of liquids) viscous, thick