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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.
Noun
teld (plural telds)
- (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)
- (transitive, obsolete) To lodge in a tent.
- (transitive, obsolete) To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.
Etymology 3
Verb
teld
- (West Country, Yorkshire, Devon) simple past and past participle of tell
I teld you what happened.
Anagrams
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *teld, from Proto-Germanic *teldą. Cognate with Old High German zelt.
Pronunciation
Noun
teld n
- tent
Uton āslēan ūre teld hēr on þisse mǣdwe.- Let's pitch our tent here in this meadow.
Declension
Declension of teld (strong a-stem)
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