tek

tek (third-person singular simple present teks, present participle teking, simple past took, past participle tekken)

1. (Northumbria, Appalachia, archaic) Pronunciation spelling of take, representing dialectal English.
   • 1893, Amélie Rives, Tanis, the Sang-digger:

     Doncher know a cud hole yuh an' tek a kiss anytime a'd a mine tuh?

• te

From Proto-Albanian *tai ̊, from *te ku (< tóy- kʷu-) ‘there where’, from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“it”). Also occurs as a preposition with the meaning ‘ad, apud, prope, versus’. See also te.

tek

1. (over) there, where

tek

1. ergative indefinite of te

See the etymology of the main entry.

tek

1. Hard mutation of dek.

From Proto-Brythonic *teg, from Proto-Celtic *tekos (“beautiful”). Cognate with Cornish teg and Welsh teg.

tek

1. pretty, attractive

• tekenn (pretty girl)

tek

1. female, "she"

tek

1. female, "she-"

tek

1. first-person singular active present indicative of taka

tek m (invariable)

1. teak

Derived from English take.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtek/

tek

1. to take

   Tek time pon di road. ― Take it easy when you're driving.

• verbs
  • tek kier a
  • tek weh yuhself

   

• Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 550
• tek – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

tek

1. present of ta and taka

tek

1. first-person singular present active indicative of taka

From Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁iiʔ (“hand, arm”). Cognate with Khmer ដៃ (day, “hand”), Western Lawa teʔ (“hand”), Bolyu ti⁵⁵ (“hand”), Central Nicobarese -tai (“hand”).

tek^[1]

1. hand

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tekъ.

• IPA^(key): /têk/

tȅk (Cyrillic spelling те̏к)

1. only, only just, hardly, barely

   Tek svega par je preživjelo katastrofu. ― Only a couple of people survived the catastrophe.

2. yet, still

   Pregovori se tek trebaju održati. ― Negotiations have yet to take place.

• samo

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tękъ.

• IPA^(key): /têːk/

tȇk m (Cyrillic spelling те̑к)

1. appetite
2. taste, flavour

• dobar tek

• apetit

• IPA^(key): /téːk/

tẹ̑k m inan

1. run, flow
2. appetite

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• apetít

• dober tek

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تك (tek, “unique; alone”), from Proto-Turkic *tēk.

• IPA^(key): /tec/

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tek

1. single, sole

   Hastanın tek arzusu iyileşmektir. ― The only wish of a sick man is to get well.

2. unique
3. single-barrelled

   Antonym: çifte

• teklik

• tek tek

• “tek”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu