teld

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛld

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English teld (“tent, pavilion, tabernacle”), 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”). See also tilt.

Noun

teld (plural telds)

  1. (obsolete) A tent.

Etymology 2

From Middle English telden (“to set up a tent”), from teld (“tent”). See above.

Verb

teld (third-person singular simple present telds, present participle telding, simple past and past participle telded)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To lodge in a tent.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.

Anagrams

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *teldą. Akin to Old High German zelt.

Noun

teld ?

  1. a tent

Descendants

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