tiei

From Latin tuī.

tiei (second-person singular possessive of masculine plural, lof masculine singular to, of feminine singular tô, of feminine plural tôs)

1. (used attributively) your; of yours
2. (used predicatively) yours
3. (used substantively) yours; the thing belonging to you

• lôr
• gno
• nestri
• so
• vuestri

From tieli, from Proto-Oceanic *taci (“younger sibling of the same sex”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ta-huaji, from *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃei/

tiei

1. brother!
2. sister!

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry tiei.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry tiei.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.