felt

English

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Felt cloths.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɛlt/, X-SAMPA: /fElt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

Old English felt, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”) (adj.), Old Church Slavonic plŭstĭ, Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pilos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

Noun

Wikipedia felt (uncountable)

1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
   • Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:

     It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.

2. A hat made of felt.
3. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:

     To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

Translations

cloth made of matted fibres of wool

• Armenian: թաղիք (hy) (tʿałikʿ)
• Asturian: fieltru (ast) m
• Bulgarian: филц (bg) (filts) m
• Catalan: feltre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛氈 (cmn), 毛毡 (cmn) (máozhān)

• Czech: plsť (cs) f
• Danish: filt (da) n
• Dutch: vilt (nl) n
• Esperanto: felto (eo)
• Finnish: huopa (fi)
• French: feutre (fr) m, feutrine (fr) f
• Galician: feltro (gl) m
• German: Filz (de) n
• Greek: κετσές (el) (ketsés) m

• Hebrew: לבד (he) (léved) m
• Ido: felto (io)
• Italian: feltro (it) m
• Japanese: フェルト (ja) (feruto), 羅紗 (ja) (らしゃ, rasha)
• Luxembourgish: Filz (lb) m
• Norwegian: filt (no) m
• Portuguese: feltro (pt) m
• Russian: фетр (ru) (fetr) m, войлок (ru) (vójlok) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пуст (sh) m, филц (sh) m

  Roman: pust (sh) m, filc (sh) m

• Spanish: fieltro (es) m
• Swedish: filt (sv) c
• Turkish: aba (tr), keçe (tr), fötr (tr), kiyiz (tr)

hat made of felt

• Bulgarian: филцова шапка (bg) (filtsova shapka) f
• Danish: filthat (da) c
• Finnish: huopahattu (fi)
• German: Filzhut (de) m

• Norwegian: filthatt (no) m
• Serbo-Croatian: pusteni šešir (sh) m
• Turkish: fötr (tr)

Related terms

• felt grain: the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. — Knight
• felt-tip pen
• coated felt sheet
• saturated felt

Verb

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Matthew Hale to this entry?)

2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.

   to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

Translations

make into felt

• German: filzen (de)

cover with felt

• Danish: filte (da)

• Finnish: huovittaa (fi)

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• Swedish: filta

Etymology 2

Old English fēled, corresponding to feel +‎ -ed.

Verb

felt

1. simple past tense and past participle of feel

Adjective

felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)

1. That has been experienced or perceived.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 257:

     Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: best · word · light · #248: felt · since · use · used

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German velt, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“flat”).

Gender changed by influence from mark.

Noun

felt c (singular definite felten, not used in plural form)

1. field (the practical part of something)

Derived terms

Derived terms

feltarbejde n feltflaske c feltfod c feltherre c felthær c feltkøkken n

feltlazaret n feltmadras c feltmarskal c feltmæssig feltpræst c feltråb n

feltseng c felttog n feltundersøgelse c i felten til felts

Etymology 2

From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“flat”).

Noun

felt n (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)

1. field
2. sphere, province
3. square

Derived terms

Derived terms

centralfelt n fodgængerfelt n forfelt n førerfelt n gammafelt n gåfelt n

kraftfelt n krydsfelt n kulfelt n magnetfelt n minefelt n neksusfelt n

slutfelt n spændingsfelt n synsfelt n virkefelt n

Inflection

    Inflection of felt

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	felt	feltet	felter	felterne
genitive	felts	feltets	felters	felternes

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

felt n (definite singular feltet; indefinite plural felt; definite plural felta/feltene)

1. field

Verb

felt

1. Past participle of felle