telt

From Middle English telt, dialectal first and third person singular past indicative of Middle English tellen, equivalent to tell +‎ -t.

telt

1. (Scotland, Northern England) simple past and past participle of tell

   Get him telt he's tae come hame noo

   you'll dae as yer mam's telt ya

• told

• ETTL, Lett, lett

From Middle Low German telt, from Proto-Germanic *teldą. Cognate with German Zelt and Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence Norwegian Bokmål tjeld, Swedish tjäll, and Danish tjæld). English tilt and Swedish tält were also borrowed from Low German.

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telt n (singular definite teltet, plural indefinite telte)

1. a tent

• “telt” in Den Danske Ordbog

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

telt

1. inflection of tellen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

From the verb telik.^[1]

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• Hyphenation: telt
• Rhymes: -ɛlt

telt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of telik

   Hogy telt ma a napod? ― How was your day?

telt

1. past participle of telik: that which has (been) filled (up)

telt (comparative teltebb, superlative legteltebb)

1. full

   Synonyms: teli, töltött

2. plump (figure)

   Synonyms: teltkarcsú, molett, pufi, duci

• telt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old English teld (“tent”), Danish telt. Became tilt in Late Middle English.

telt (plural telts)

1. a cloth covering, an awning

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

telt

Wikipedia ^no

From Middle Low German telt.

telt n (definite singular teltet, indefinite plural telt or telter, definite plural telta or teltene)

1. a tent

• sirkustelt
• teltplass

• talt, tellet

telt

1. past participle of telle

• “telt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “telt” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

telt

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From Middle Low German telt. Doublet of tjeld.

telt n (definite singular teltet, indefinite plural telt, definite plural telta)

1. a tent

   Synonym: tjeld

• sirkustelt
• teltplass

• “telt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.