teld

• Rhymes: -ɛld

From Middle English, from Old English teld (“tent, pavilion, tabernacle”), from Proto-Germanic *teldą (“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.

teld (plural telds)

1. (obsolete) A tent.

From Middle English telden (“to set up a tent”), from teld (“tent”). See above.

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.

• tilt

teld

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

   I teld you what happened.

• delt

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

• IPA^(key): /teld/, [teld]

teld n

1. tent

• beteldan
• ġeteld

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