tellen

English

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Noun

tellen (plural tellens)

  1. (zoology) Any species of Tellina, a genus of marine bivalve molluscs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tellen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛlə(n)/
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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Verb

tellen

  1. (transitive) to count, to enumerate
  2. (transitive) to determine the number of
  3. (intransitive) to matter, to be of significance
Inflection
Inflection of tellen (weak)
infinitive tellen
past singular telde
past participle geteld
infinitive tellen
gerund tellen n
verbal noun —
present tense past tense
1st person singular teltelde
2nd person sing. (jij) telttelde
2nd person sing. (u) telttelde
2nd person sing. (gij) telttelde
3rd person singular telttelde
plural tellentelden
subjunctive sing.1 telletelde
subjunctive plur.1 tellentelden
imperative sing. tel
imperative plur.1 telt
participles tellendgeteld
1) Archaic.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Noun

tellen

  1. Plural form of tel

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German tellen, from Old Saxon tellian, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną. Cognate with Dutch tellen, German zählen, West Frisian telle, English tell, Danish tælle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛlːən/

Verb

tellen (past singular tell, past participle tellt, auxiliary verb hebben)

  1. to count, to tell

Conjugation

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Verb

tellen

  1. to count, to calculate
  2. to count as, to consider as
  3. to tell, to say

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • “tellen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “tellen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English tellan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Verb

tellen

  1. to count
  2. to tell

Conjugation

Descendants

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon tellian, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną. Cognate with Dutch tellen and English tell.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tellən/, [t(ʰ)elˠːə̃n] or IPA(key): /tɛllən/, [t(ʰ)ɛlˠːə̃n]
  • The raising of [ɛ] to [e] might have been blocked by /lC/, as this combination prevented a lowering of [ʊ] to [ɔ].

Verb

tellen

  1. to count, to tell

Conjugation

Descendants

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