English Explanatory Dictionary

teld

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tent.
verb
  1. To lodge in a tent.
  2. To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of tell

Word forms

teld telds tield tild telding telded

Etymology

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.

Related words

tilt
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