tellen

tellen (plural tellens)

1. (zoology) Any species of Tellina, a genus of marine bivalve molluscs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: tel‧en
• Rhymes: -ɛlən
• Rhymes: -ɛlən

From Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

tellen

1. (transitive) to count, to enumerate
2. (transitive) to determine the number of
3. (intransitive) to matter, to be of significance

• aftellen
• optellen
• vertellen

• Afrikaans: tel
• → Sranan Tongo: teri

See the etymology of the main entry.

tellen

1. Plural form of tel

From Middle Low German tellen, from Old Saxon tellian, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną. Cognate with Dutch tellen, German zählen, West Frisian telle, English tell, Danish tælle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlːən/

tellen (past singular tell, past participle tellt, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to count, to tell

From Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

tellen

1. to count, to calculate
2. to count as, to consider as
3. to tell, to say

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: tellen
• Limburgish: tèlle

• “tellen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “tellen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English tellan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

tellen

1. to count
2. to tell

• English: tell
• Scots: tell

From Old Saxon tellian, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną. Cognate with Dutch tellen and English tell.

• IPA^(key): /tellən/, [t(ʰ)elˠːə̃n] or IPA^(key): /tɛllən/, [t(ʰ)ɛlˠːə̃n]
• The raising of [ɛ] to [e] might have been blocked by /lC/, as this combination prevented a lowering of [ʊ] to [ɔ].

tellen

1. to count, to tell

• vortellen

• Low German: tellen

From Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

tellen

1. to tell, to say
2. to count

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: tellen
  • Dutch: tellen
  • Limburgish: tèlle

• “tellen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012