teina

• IPA^(key): /teˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: te‧ì‧na

teina f (plural teine)

1. theine (caffeine in tea)

• teina in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• teina in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Tinea, aneti, etani, etnia, natie, tenia

From Proto-Polynesian *tahina (“younger sibling of same sex” – compare with Hawaiian kaina, Tahitian teina and Tongan tehina), from Proto-Oceanic *taci- (“younger sibling of the same sex”) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taji “younger sibling” (compare with Samoan tei)^[1] related to *huaji (“ibid.” – compare with Malay adik and Iban adi).^[2] Doublet of taina.

teina (irregular plural tēina)

1. younger sibling regardless of gender
   1. younger brother of a male
   2. younger sister of a female

   Synonym: taina

2. any junior relative including cousins

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “teina”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 480
• “teina” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Proto-Germanic *tainijǭ (“wickerwork; wicker basket”), derived from *tainaz (“rod; twig”). Cognates include Middle English tenel.

teina f

1. basket made of twigs, wicker basket

• teinn m (“twig, sprout”)

• Icelandic: teina
• Norwegian: teina, teine; (dialectal) tine, tene
  • → Danish: tejne (teine) c (Norway)
    • Norwegian Bokmål: teine m or f
• Swedish: tena
• Danish: tene

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

teina

1. inflection of teinn:
   1. indefinite accusative plural
   2. indefinite genitive plural

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “teina”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Borrowed from English theine.

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: te‧i‧na

teina f (related adjective teinowy)

1. theine (caffeine in tea)

• teina in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• teina in PWN's encyclopedia

• IPA^(key): /teˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: te‧i‧na

teina f

1. nominative/accusative definite singular of teină

*te- (“animal”) +‎ Proto-Mixtec *ínà (“dog”). Cf. Alcozauca Mixtec tìnà, Tezoatlán Mixtec ti̱na.

teina

1. dog

• Alvarado, Francisco de (1593), Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 166v