teld
A tent.
Noun
- A tent.
Origin
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.
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Verb obsolete, transitive
- To lodge in a tent.
- To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.
Origin
From Middle English telden (“to set up a tent”), from teld (“tent”). See above.
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Verb West Country, Yorkshire
- simple past and past participle of tell
- I teld you what happened.