teld.
A tent.
Meaning & usage
A tent.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English teld, tield, telte, from Old English teld (“tent, pavilion, tabernacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *teld, 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”). Doublet of tilt and geteld.
To lodge in a tent.
To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English telden (“to set up a tent”), from teld (“tent”). See above.
simple past and past participle of tell
I teld you what happened.
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