Possibly from Proto-Uralic *tijä (“tight, narrow”).

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тея • (teja)

1. narrow

   Synonym: теине (tejine)

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “тея”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1052 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Likely borrowed from Hungarian tea, ultimately from Hokkien 茶 (tê) possibly via German Tee. Cognates include Carpathian Rusyn тея (teja), Lower Sorbian tej, Silesian tyj and dialectal Slovene tẹ́. Doublet of чай (čaj).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛja]
• Rhymes: -ɛja
• Hyphenation: тея

тея (teja) f (related adjective тейов or тейови)

1. tea

   Synonym: (more common) чай (čaj)

   руменцова тея ― rumencova teja ― chamomile tea

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “тея”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк [Rusyn-Serbian Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy