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teld

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
teld
IPA
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tent.

Obsolete

verb

To lodge in a tent.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

verb

To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

verb

simple past and past participle of tell

Example Sentences

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: teld, *teld, *teldą, *delt-, telden

Usage

Inflected Forms

telds (plural) tield (alternative) tild (alternative) telds (present, singular) telding (participle, present) telded (participle, past) telded (past)

Frequently Paired Words

tilt

Rhymes With

held spelled compelled upheld smelled withheld weld swelled felled meld beheld quelled

Questions

What does teld mean?
A tent.
Where does teld come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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