te-
See also: Appendix:Variations of "te"
Classical Nahuatl
Prefix
tē-
- Indefinite animate object: someone; somebody; everyone; people.
- Indefinite animate possessor: someone's; somebody's.
Derived terms
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See also
- tla-
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch te-, from Old Dutch *ti-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-.
Prefix
te-
- (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”)
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *ti-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-.
Prefix
te-
- Creates verbs with a sense of ‘in pieces, apart, asunder’, or with intensive force.
Derived terms
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Middle English
Etymology 1
From to (“in the direction of”), from Old English tō.
Prefix
te-
- Alternative form of to-
References
- “tọ̄̆- pref. (1.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 April 2018.
Etymology 2
From Old English tō-, te- (“apart, asunder”).
Prefix
te-
- Alternative form of to-
References
- “tọ̄̆- pref. (2.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 April 2018.
Old English
Prefix
te- (unstressed prefix)
- Alternative form of to-
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-.
Prefix
te-
- 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”)
Derived terms
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