tews

See also: Tews

English

Noun

tews

  1. plural of tew

Verb

tews

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tew

Anagrams

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?], further etymology unclear. Compare Lithuanian tė́vas (“father”), Latvian tȩ̃vs (“father, old man”), Old Prussian thewis (“cousin”), but towis and tāws (“father”).[1][2]

Noun

tewſ

  1. father
    • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 100, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
      ojceć [ojciec] — tewſ
      ojceć [ojciec] — father

See also

References
  1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 80: “tewſ ‘tėvas, l. ojceć’ 100.”
  2. “tė́vas” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. tewſ ‘Vater’”.
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