tejn.

1853 M. Parkyns Life in Abyssinia I. xvii. 210 Spirits are of an inferior kind, distilled..from the refuse of the wine or from honey... The grape is called ‘wainy’, the wine ‘wain tedge’.

1877 E. A. De Cossons Cradle of Blue Nile I. vii. 100 As soon as the baskets of bread had been removed, bottles of tedge were served.

1901 A. B. Wylde Mod. Abyssinia viii. 182 The tedj bearer always pouring out a little of the liquid into..his hand.

1901 A. B. Wylde Mod. Abyssinia xvii. 377 The honey taken from the wanza flowers being greatly prized, as being of a white colour makes very clear tedj.

1925 H. C. Maydon Simen ii. 24 Abdulla, the cook, was..too apt to celebrate with the local tej and marissa (mead and beer).

1936 E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia i. 26 A weekly visit to the cinema, a preference for whisky over tedj..were the western innovations that these young men relished.

1936 E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia v. 169 They got very drunk in the tedj houses.

1952 Chambers's Jrnl. May 278/1 The local fermented beverage will be flowing freely—be it coconut pombe, or barley talla, or honey tej, depending on where in Africa the ceremony is taking place.

1974 Country Life 18 Apr. 938/3 Tej, a mead of honey, hops and water.

1981 E. North Dames i. 12 It is known as tedj... A sort of honey-mead... Some call it mies.