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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French teil, til, from Latin tilia.
Pronunciation
Noun
teil (plural teils)
- The lime tree, or linden.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Isaiah 6:13:But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Anagrams
Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Dutch têle, teile, from Old Dutch tēla, *teila, from earlier tegela, and therefore a doublet of tegel.
Pronunciation
Noun
teil f (plural teilen, diminutive teiltje n)
- tub, basin (wide vessel with generally a larger volume than a bucket)
- 1964, The Lighttown Skiffle Group, "Doe 't maar in een emmertje", on Hé zusje - Doe 't maar in een emmertje.
Wij drinken nooit uit glaasjes / Dat is beneden peil / Doe 't maar in een emmertje / Doe 't maar in een teil- We never drink out of glasses / That is below our level / Just put it in a bucket / Just put it in a tub
- Synonym: tobbe
- tray or pot used for serving a dish
Derived terms
Estonian
Noun
teil
- adessive plural of tee
Finnish
Pronoun
teil
- (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of teillä.
German
Pronunciation
Verb
teil
- singular imperative of teilen
Kriol
Etymology
From English tail.
Noun
teil
- tail (appendage of an animal)
Middle English
Noun
teil
- Alternative form of tayl
Veps
Pronoun
teil
- adessive of tö
Noun
teil
- adessive plural of te
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English eilen. Initial t- is a dental addition after /d/.
Pronunciation
Verb
teil
- to ail
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 71 & 84