Classical Nahuatl

Prefix

tē-

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

See also

• tla-

Dutch

Etymology

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

Cognate with Old Frisian ti-, te-, Old Saxon te-, Old High German zi-, zir-, zar-, zur- (German zer-), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐍃- ‎(dis-), and with Latin dis-.

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”)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *ti-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-. Cognate with Old Frisian ti-, te-, Old Saxon te-, Old High German zi-, zir-, zar-, zur- (German zer-), Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐍃- ‎(dis-), and with Latin dis-.

Prefix

te-

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

   tebreken ‎(“to break apart”)

   tesenden ‎(“to scatter, to divide”)

   teslaen ‎(“to crush”)

   tesliten ‎(“to tear apart”)

   tesmelten ‎(“to melt, to fuse”)

   tescheren ‎(“to rip apart”)

   tesniden ‎(“to cut to pieces”)

   tespliten ‎(“to cleave”)

   tespreiden ‎(“to scatter”)

   tespringen ‎(“to split into pieces”)

   testeken ‎(“to pierce; to devalue”)

   testorten ‎(“to fall apart”)

   testoten ‎(“to thrust apart”)

   testrooyen ‎(“to scatter”)

   tetreden ‎(“to trample”)

   tevallen ‎(“to fall and break in pieces; to dilapidate”)

   tevaren ‎(“to be ceased, to be extinguished”)

   tevlieten ‎(“to dissolve, to fade away”)

   tevoeren ‎(“to destroy; to subjugate”): causative of tevaren.

   tewerpen ‎(“to wound by a throw”)

   tewoesten ‎(“to destroy”)

   tewriven ‎(“to destroy or pulverize by rubbing”)

Old English

Prefix

te- ‎(unstressed prefix)

1. Alternative form of to-

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *twiz-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwis-. Cognate with Old Frisian ti-, te-, Old High German zi-, zir-, zar-, zur- (German zer-), Middle Dutch te-, Dutch te-, Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐍃- ‎(dis-), and with Latin dis-.

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