ti

Symbol

ti

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tigrinya.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tigrinya terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: T, te, tea, tee

Etymology 1

Coined by English music educator Sarah Anna Glover in 1812 as an alteration of si for her solmization, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter, from Middle English si (“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian si in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials of Latin Sāncte Iohannēs (“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Etymology 2

From a Polynesian language, related to Hawaiian kī.

See also

• ti bon ange
• [[ti ko pek
• ti lok
• ti-tree

Anagrams

• 'it, It., IT, it, It⁺⁶, It

Noun

ti

1. taro

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂; modern accusative ty is from Proto-Albanian Proto-Albanian *twā from emphatic *tu̯ḗm, clitic të is from clitic *te, and ablative teje is from locative *toí + -je from meje (see unë).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ti]

Pronoun

ti (accusative ty, dative ty, ablative teje)

1. you (singular)

See also

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tē, accusative of tū. Compare Romanian te.

Pronoun

ti (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of tu)

1. (direct object) you

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/ [ˈt̪i]

Interjection

ti

1. interjection used to call goats

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bahnaric *tiː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁iiʔ. Cognate with Pacoh ati, Khmer ដៃ (day), Bolyu ti⁵⁵, Riang [Lang] tiʔ¹.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/

Noun

ti

1. hand

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Brythonic *tɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.

Noun

ti m

1. house

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• Yasuhiko Nagano, Randy J. LaPolla, New Research on Zhangzhung and Related Himalayan Languages (2001)
• Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand (1989), section Chaudangsi-Byangsi, page 161:

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand (1989), section Chaudangsi-Byangsi, page 161:

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː(ʔ)/
• Transcription: tii'

Noun

tī (alienable)

1. tea

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea.

Noun

ti

1. tea

Etymology

Inherited from Latin te. Cognates include Italian te, ti and French te.

Pronoun

ti

1. thee, you (singular; both direct and indirect object)

Etymology

Inflected form of ten or ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈcɪ]

• Audio:

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Pronoun

ti

1. they, those

   Kde jsou Pavel s Ivanou? Ti přijdou později. ― Where are Pavel and Ivana? Those two will come later.

2. to you

   Dávám ti to na opravu. ― I give it to you to repair.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːˀ/, [ˈtˢiˀ]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse tíu, from Proto-Germanic *tehun, cognate with Norwegian ti, Swedish tio, English ten, German zehn. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ (“ten”), which is also the source of Latin decem, Ancient Greek δέκα (déka).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ti

1. water

References

• A Descriptive Grammar of Darma: An Endangered Tibeto-Burman Language (2007)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Athabaskan *tuˑ.

Noun

ti

1. water
2. liquid
3. lake

References

• Tłįįchǫ yati Enįhtł'è (1996; published by the Dogrib Divisional Board of Education, Dogrib Language Centre)
• Thomas Sebeok, Native Languages of the Americas, volume 1, page 292: [Howren] notes u > i in Dogrib (ti 'water', Hare-Bearlake tu; this shift occurs also in Ingalik and Tanaina in Alaska)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ti, from Latin tibi.

Pronoun

ti

1. Second person singular prepositional pronoun; you

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Noun

ti

1. tea

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English dit.

Etymology

From est-il (literally “is it?”). Compare Canadian French tu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

• Audio:

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Particle

ti

1. (dated, colloquial) question marker

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tē, accusative singular of tū. As an indirect object, in part from Latin tibi, dative singular of tū, through a Vulgar Latin *ti.

Pronoun

ti (second person direct object, indirect object)

1. (direct object) you
2. (indirect object) to you
3. (reflexive pronoun) yourself

Alternative forms

• tu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tu, ti; from Latin tū. The accusative is from Latin tē; one dative form, used after a preposition, from tibi; the other dative form, from metanalysis of the contractions of te + article.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/ [ˈt̪i]
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: ti

Pronoun

ti (after a preposition ti, accusative te, dative che)

1. you (singular)

   Synonyms: vós, vostede, Vde.

See also

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ti”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ti”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ti”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ti”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

Derived from French petit (“little”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

Adjective

ti

1. little

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti/ [ˈti]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ti

Article

ti (Hanunoo spelling ᜦᜲ)

1. the one; that which

   mayad ti tawo ― the person is good

   Sintay ti mayad?

   Who is the one who is good?

   ti mga daot ― the (things which are) bad

Further reading

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 273

Etymology

Borrowed from English tea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tîː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tîː]

Noun

tî m (possessed form tîn)

1. tea

   Synonym: shayi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈti]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ti

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Uralic *te. Compare Finnish te.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Further reading

• (you guys): ti in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (ti [solfège sign]): ti in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiʔ/

Conjunction

ti

1. which ((relative) who, whom, what)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/

Pronoun

ti

1. Alternative form of iti (“those people, those things”)

   Ti esas plu forta, ma ci plu bela. ― Those guys are stronger, but these guys are prettier.

   Yes, ma me kredas ke ti esas plu bona. ― Yes, but I think that those (things) are better.

Etymology

Borrowed from English ti, from alteration of si, made so that every note of solfège would begin with a different letter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti/
• Rhymes: -ti
• Hyphenation: ti

Noun

ti

1. (music) ti (a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale)

   Synonym: si

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tū.

Pronoun

ti

1. you (second-person singular personal pronoun)
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 29:

     Ti son la manduleîna inzucherada.

     You are the sugared almond.

Etymology 1

Derived from Latin tē (the name of the letter T).

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin tē (accusative of tū), from Proto-Indo-European *twé, *te, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”). As a dative, in part from Latin tibi, dative of tū, through a Vulgar Latin *ti.

Etymology 3

Further reading

• Italian grammar: Pronouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ti (nota) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Romanization

ti

1. The katakana syllable ティ (ti) in Hepburn-like romanization.