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teld

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English teld, tield, telte, from Old English teld (“tent, pavilion, tabernacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą (“tent”), from Proto-Indo-European *delt- (“board”). Cognate with Middle Dutch telde, telt (“tent”), German Zelt (“tent”), Swedish tält (“tent”), Icelandic tjald (“tent”). Doublet of tilt and geteld.

Alternative forms

  • tield, tild

Noun

teld (plural telds)

  1. (obsolete) A tent.

Etymology 2

From Middle English telden (“to set up a tent”), from teld (“tent”). See above.

Verb

teld (third-person singular simple present telds, present participle telding, simple past and past participle telded)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To lodge in a tent.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.

Etymology 3

Verb

teld

  1. (West Country, Yorkshire) simple past and past participle of tell
    I teld you what happened.

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą. Cognate with Old High German zelt.

Pronunciation

Noun

teld n

  1. tent
    Uton āslēan ūre teld hēr on þisse mǣdwe.
    Let's pitch our tent here in this meadow.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: teld, tielde
    • Scots: tild, tyld, teill
    • English: teld, tilt
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