te-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "te"

Classical Nahuatl

Prefix

tē-

1. Indefinite animate object: someone; somebody; everyone; people.
2. Indefinite animate possessor: someone's; somebody's.

Derived terms

Classical Nahuatl terms prefixed with te-

See also

Classical Nahuatl possessive prefixes

	Singular	Plural
1st person	no-	to-
2nd person	mo-	amo-
3rd person	ī-	īm-
impersonal	tē-

Classical Nahuatl object prefixes

	Singular	Plural
1st person	nēch-	tēch-
2nd person	mitz-	amēch-
3rd person	qu-, c-	quim-, quin-
impersonal	tē-, tla-

See also

• tla-

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch te-, from Old Dutch *ti-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-. Compare German zer-.

Prefix

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”)

Indonesian

Prefix

te-

1. Alternative form of ter-

Lithuanian

Etymology

unknown

Prefix

te-

1. to form the permissive mood

   tedirbie (“let him work”)

   teaugie (“let it grow”)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *ti-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-.

Prefix

te-

1. Creates verbs with a sense of ‘in pieces, apart, asunder’, or with intensive force.

Derived terms

Middle Dutch terms prefixed with te-

Middle English

Etymology 1

Prefix

te-

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

Etymology 2

Prefix

te-

1. Alternative form of to- (“apart”)

Mohawk

Alternative forms

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-North Iroquoian *teʔ.

Prefix

te-

1. negation prefix, used with iah

Etymology 2

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

Prefix

te-

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

References

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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/

Prefix

te-

1. Alternative form of tō-

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-.

Prefix

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”)

Derived terms

Old Saxon terms prefixed with te-

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [te-]

Prefix

te-

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

Inflection

Ye'kwana personal markers

	pronoun	noun possessor/ series II verb argument		postposition object		series I verb argument
						transitive patient	intransitive patient-like		intransitive agent-like	transitive agent
first person	ewü	y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1						w-, wi-
first person dual inclusive	küwü	k-, kü-, ku-, ki-								k-, kii-, ki-1
second person	amödö	ö-, öy-/ödh-, o-, oy-/odh-, a-, ay-/adh-							m-, mi-
first person dual exclusive	nña	y-/dh-, ch-, ∅-, i-1			chö-	∅-	n-, ni-
third person	tüwü					n-, ni-
distant past third person		—				kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
coreferential/reflexive	—	t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te-				—
reciprocal	—	—	öö-
With following vowel lengthened if in an unreduced open syllable.

	series I verb argument: transitive agent and transitive patient
first person > second person	mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
first person dual exclusive > second person
second person > first person	k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
second person > first person dual exclusive
third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person	see person X in the chart above