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tellen (plural tellens)

1. (zoology) Archaic spelling of tellin.

“tellen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: tel‧len
• Rhymes: -ɛlən

From Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Equivalent to tal (“number”) +‎ -en (“denominative”) or taal (“language”) +‎ -en (“denominative”) and shows the effect of historical umlaut.

tellen

1. (transitive) to count, to enumerate
2. (transitive) to determine the number of
3. (intransitive) to matter, to be of significance

• Afrikaans: tel
• Berbice Creole Dutch: tali
• Negerhollands: tel
• → Sranan Tongo: teri
  • → Aukan: teli

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tellen

1. plural of tel

tellen

1. inflection of tellar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

From Middle Low German tellen, from Old Saxon tellian.

Cognate with Dutch tellen, German zählen, West Frisian telle, English tell, Danish tælle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlːən/

tellen (past singular tell, past participle tellt, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to count, to tell

From Old Dutch tellen

tellen

1. to count, to calculate
2. to count as, to consider as
3. to tell, to say

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: tellen
• Limburgish: tèlle

• “tellen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “tellen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

From Old English tellan, from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

tellen

1. to count
2. to tell

• English: tell
• Scots: tell
• Yola: tolth, told (preterite)

• “tellen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Saxon tellian. Cognate with Dutch tellen and English tell.

• IPA^(key): /tellən/, or IPA^(key): /tɛllən/,
• The raising of to might have been blocked by /lC/, as this combination prevented a lowering of to .

tellen

1. to count, to tell

• vortellen

• Low German: tellen

From Proto-West Germanic *talljan.

tellen

1. to tell, to say
2. to count

• Middle Dutch: tellen
  • Dutch: tellen
  • Limburgish: tèlle

• “tellen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012