different between telt vs tels

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

Noun

tels

1. plural of tel

Anagrams

• ELTs, LETS, LTEs, TESL, elts, lest, let's, lets

French

Adjective

tels

1. masculine plural of tel

Anagrams

• lest

Volapük

Numeral

tels

1. (obsolete) twenty

Usage notes

• This word has been replaced by teldeg.