telt

English

Etymology

From Middle English telt, dialectal first and third person singular past indicative of Middle English tellen, equivalent to tell +‎ -t.

Verb

telt

1. (Scotland, Northern England) simple past and past participle of tell

   Get him telt he's tae come hame noo

   you'll dae as yer mam's telt ya

Synonyms

• told

Anagrams

• ETTL, Lett, lett

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German telt, from Proto-Germanic *teldą. Cognate with German Zelt and Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence Norwegian Bokmål tjeld, Swedish tjäll, and Danish tjæld). English tilt and Swedish tält were also borrowed from Low German.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtˢɛlˀd̥]

Noun

telt n (singular definite teltet, plural indefinite telte)

1. a tent

Inflection

Declension of telt

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	telt	teltet	telte	teltene
genitive	telts	teltets	teltes	teltenes

References

• “telt” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Verb

telt

1. inflection of tellen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

From the verb telik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛlt]
• Hyphenation: telt
• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Verb

telt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of telik

   Hogy telt ma a napod? ― How was your day?

Participle

telt

1. past participle of telik: that which has (been) filled (up)

Derived terms

Compound words

• öntelt

Expressions

• telt ház → telt házas

Adjective

telt (comparative teltebb, superlative legteltebb)

1. full

   Synonyms: teli, töltött

2. plump (figure)

   Synonyms: teltkarcsú, molett, pufi, duci

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	telt	teltek
accusative	teltet	telteket
dative	teltnek	telteknek
instrumental	telttel	teltekkel
causal-final	teltért	teltekért
translative	teltté	teltekké
terminative	teltig	teltekig
essive-formal	teltként	teltekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	teltben	teltekben
superessive	telten	telteken
adessive	teltnél	telteknél
illative	teltbe	teltekbe
sublative	teltre	teltekre
allative	telthez	teltekhez
elative	teltből	teltekből
delative	teltről	teltekről
ablative	telttől	teltektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	telté	telteké
non-attributive possessive – plural	teltéi	teltekéi

Further reading

• telt in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English teld (“tent”), Danish telt. Became tilt in Late Middle English.

Noun

telt (plural telts)

1. a cloth covering, an awning

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German telt.

Noun

telt n (definite singular teltet, indefinite plural telt or telter, definite plural telta or teltene)

1. a tent

Derived terms

• sirkustelt
• teltplass

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• talt, tellet

Verb

telt

1. past participle of telle

References

• “telt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “telt” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German telt. Doublet of tjeld.

Noun

telt n (definite singular teltet, indefinite plural telt, definite plural telta)

1. a tent

   Synonym: tjeld

Derived terms

• sirkustelt
• teltplass

References

• “telt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.