different between teld vs keld

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English teld (“tent, pavilion, tabernacle”), from Proto-Germanic *teld? (“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. Compare geteld.

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.

Related terms

• tilt

Etymology 3

Verb

teld

1. (West Country, Yorkshire, Devon) simple past tense and past participle of tell

   I teld you what happened.

Anagrams

• delt

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teld/, [te?d]

Noun

teld n

1. tent

Declension

Derived terms

• beteldan
• ?eteld

Descendants

• Middle English: teld, tielde
  • Scots: tild, tyld, teill
  • English: teld, tilt

English

Adjective

keld (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Having a kell or covering; webbed.
   • 1630, Michael Drayton, “Noahs Floud” in The Muses Elizium Lately Discouered, p. 98[1]:

     […] the Otter then that keepes / In the wild Riuers, in their Bancks and Sleeps, / And seeds on Fish, which vnder water still, / He with his keld seet, and keene teeth doth kill; / The other two into the Arke doth follow, / Though his ill shape doth cause him but to wallow […]

Anagrams

• Delk