different between telt vs pelt

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 tense and past participle of tell

   Get him telt he's te come hyem noo

   you'll de as ye mam's telt ya

Synonyms

• told

Anagrams

• ETTL, Lett, lett

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German telt, from Proto-Germanic *teld?. 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): [?t??l?d?]

Noun

telt n (singular definite teltet, plural indefinite telte)

1. a tent

Inflection

References

• “telt” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

telt

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

Hungarian

Etymology

From the verb telik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?lt]
• Hyphenation: telt
• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

telt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of telik

Participle

telt

1. past participle of telik

Adjective

telt (comparative teltebb, superlative legteltebb)

1. full

   Synonyms: teli, töltött

2. plump (figure)

   Synonyms: teltkarcsú, molett, pufi, duci

Declension

References

Further reading

• telt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). 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

Noun

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

1. a tent

Derived terms

• sirkustelt
• teltplass

References

• “telt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French pelette, diminutive of pel (“a skin”), from Latin pellis. Alternatively a contraction of peltry (“skins”) from the same Old French and Latin roots.Norwegian pels, Norwegian belte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

pelt (plural pelts)

1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it.
2. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
3. (humorous) Human skin.

   • A scabby tetter on their pelts will stick

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Possible contraction of pellet

Verb

pelt (third-person singular simple present pelts, present participle pelting, simple past and past participle pelted)

1. (transitive) To bombard, as with missiles.

   They pelted the attacking army with bullets.

2. (transitive) To throw; to use as a missile.

   The children pelted apples at us.

3. (intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.

   It's pelting down out there!

4. (transitive) To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
5. (intransitive) To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.

   The boy pelted down the hill on his toboggan.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To throw out words.

Translations

Noun

pelt (plural pelts)

1. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
   • 2013, Karen-Anne Stewart, Healing Rain (page 134)

     Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pelt”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• -lept, lept, lept-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

pelt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of pellen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of pellen