Jump to content

telja

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Faroese

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Verb

[edit]

telja (third person singular past indicative taldi, third person plural past indicative talt, supine talt)

  1. to count
  2. to tell

Conjugation

[edit]
Conjugation of telja (group v-18)
infinitive telja
supine talt
present past
first singular telji taldi
second singular telur taldi
third singular telur taldi
plural telja taldu
participle (a7)1 teljandi taldur
imperative
singular tel!
plural teljið!

1Only the past participle being declined.

Synonyms

[edit]

See also

[edit]

Icelandic

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

telja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative taldi, supine talið)

  1. to count [intransitive or with accusative]
    Hún kann að telja upp að tíu á japönsku.
    She can count to ten in Japanese.
  2. to believe, think [intransitive or with accusative]
    Synonyms: halda, hyggja

Conjugation

[edit]
The template Template:is-conj-w1 does not use the parameter(s):
j=j
Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.

Derived terms

[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]

From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Alternative forms

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

telja (present tense tel, past tense talde, past participle talt, passive infinitive teljast, present participle teljande, imperative tel)

  1. to count

Etymology 2

[edit]

May be comparable with Icelandic tölva and Faroese telda.

Noun

[edit]

telja

  1. (High Norwegian) computer

References

[edit]

Old Norse

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *taljaną (to count, tell). Cognate with Old English tellan, Old Frisian tella, Old Saxon tellian, Old High German zellen.

Verb

[edit]

telja (singular past indicative taldi, plural past indicative tǫldu, past participle taldr or taliðr)

  1. to count, number
  2. to tell, say
  3. to reckon, consider

Conjugation

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]
  • Icelandic: telja
  • Faroese: telja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: telja
  • Old Swedish: tælia
  • Danish: tælle

Further reading

[edit]
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “telja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive