twieled

Maltese

Root
w-l-d
11 terms

Etymology

Alteration of Arabic تَوَلَّدَ (tawallada), whence also twelled (“to come into being”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtwɪː.lɛt/

Verb

twieled (imperfect jitwieled, past participle mitwieled, verbal noun twelid)

1. mediopassive of wiled, welled, and wieled: to be born
   • 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Żmien ir-Rebbiegħa”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:

     u qalb il-pal tal-bajtar
     il-flieles żgħar minn bejn ir-rix tal-qroqqa
     joħorġu jnaqqru l-brajma tal-ġulġliena;
     u ġol-benniena
     fid-dar ta’ ħdejn il-lewża
     fil-ħeġġa tal-ħommejr
     jitwieled bambin żgħir

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of twieled

		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	twelidt	twelidt	twieled		twelidna	twelidtu	twieldu
	f			twieldet
imperfect	m	nitwieled	titwieled	jitwieled		nitwieldu	titwieldu	jitwieldu
	f			titwieled
imperative			twieled				twieldu