tep - Wiktionary proposed updates
Once the pronoun “tep” obtains official status in the English language based on popular usage, perhaps by being recognized by both the Oxford Dictionary of English and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, below are possible updates that might be made to Wiktionary.
tep - Wiktionary web page
English
Pronunciation
/tep/
Hyphenation: tep
Etymology
Created as an alternative to all other gender pronouns. Coined as a short form for “the person”, “that person” or “this person”. Inspired by the Swedish pronoun hen. Suggested as a mechanism to support the removal of grammatical gender from the English language (as examples, Hungarian does not have gendered pronouns nor any other concept of linguistic gender and Turkish does not have a system of grammatical gender and does not have any gender-specific pronouns).
Introduced Monday, March 9, 2020 (2020-03-09, stylized as 20T0-0E-0P).
Pronoun
tep (third-person, singular, personal pronoun, nominative case, accusative tep, reflexive, emphatic tepself, possessive teps)
(personal) The person previously mentioned or implied. I asked Riley, but tep said that tep didn't know.
(personal) A person. The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, tep will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Jessie?
Appendix:English_third-person_singular_pronouns - Wiktionary web page
Neopronouns
“tep” | tep laughed | I kissed tep | teps head hurt | that is teps | tep feed tepself
teps - Wiktionary proposed addition
English
Pronunciation
/teps/
Hyphenation: teps
Etymology
Created as a possessive determiner of tep.
Pronoun
teps
Belonging to tep (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tep). The rule was read from teps rulebook.
tepself - Wiktionary proposed addition
English
Pronunciation
/tep'selvz/
Hyphenation: tep self
Etymology
Created as a reflexive, emphatic pronoun of tep.
Pronoun
tepself (the third-person, singular, personal pronoun, reflexive form of tep, plural themselves)
(reflexive) tep; the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject Tep injured tepself.
(emphatic) tep; an intensive repetition of the subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate. Tep were injured tepself.
tepify - Wiktionary proposed addition
English
Pronunciation
/tepifai/
Hyphenation: tep i fy
Etymology
Created as a verb supporting the inclusion of tep into the English language and supporting the removal of grammatical gender from the English language (as an example, Finnish lacks grammatical gender entirely).
Verb
tepify (present participle tepifying, simple past and past participle tepified)
(transitive) To transform English before tep (English B.T.) text into English after tep (English A.T.) text. Riley plans to tepify the blog post before publishing it.
English before tep - Wiktionary proposed addition
English
Noun
English before tep, also: English B.T.
The English language before the introduction of the pronoun tep. Most physical books in the archive are written in English before tep.
English after tep - Wiktionary proposed addition
English
Noun
English after tep, also: English A.T.
A transitional term for the English language used during the time of the adoption of the pronoun tep and the removal of grammatical gender from the English language. Translate this English before tep article into English after tep for republication.
