teas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophones: tease, tees

Noun

teas

1. plural of tea

Verb

teas

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tea

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, seta, tase

Noun

teas

1. plural of tea

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”), from Proto-Celtic *texstus, from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“hot”). Cognate with Welsh tes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲasˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /tʲæsˠ/

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teasa)

1. heat, warmth
2. passion
3. feverishness

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “teas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85

Noun

teas n (plural teasuri)

1. Alternative form of tas

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰes̪/

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teas, no plural)

1. heat

   Bha iad gam blianadh fhèin anns teas na grèine.

   They were basking in the heat of the sun.

Noun

teas f

1. plural of tea