Teig

Meaning

1. (masculine, strong) dough, paste (a soft mixture of various ingredients such as flour and water used for baking)
2. (masculine, strong) pastry (the dough which is used as a base for other pastry products)
3. (masculine, strong) batter (a beaten mixture of egg and milk, mainly used for frying; e.g.: waffles, pancakes)

Concepts

dough

batter

pastry

doughs

paste

cornbread

flour

meal

Synonyms

Paste

Pasta

Masse

Klumpen

Knetmasse

Kot

Mehl

Menge

Mischmasch

Mörtel

schlagen

Klopfen

schütteln

gebahnt

ausgetreten

Brei aus gemahlenem Mais

Brei

Gebäck

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

daig

Graubünden

teig

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taɪ̯k/

Etymology

From Middle High German teic, from Old High German teig, teic (attested since the 9th century); from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”). Cognate with English dough, Dutch deeg, Old English dāg, Old Norse deig (whence Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Norwegian deig, Swedish deg, Danish dej), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs). Also compare Finnish taikina and Estonian taigen which appear to be early borrowings from Proto-Germanic. Non-Germanic cognates include Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos, “mound, fortification”), Latin fingō (“to shape, to form”) (compare fiction), Old Irish digen (“firm, solid”), Old Armenian դէզ (dēz, “pile, heap”), Sanskrit देह (dēha, “body”), देग्धि (degdhi, “to smear, to plaster”).