Serbo-Croatian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تللی (telli) (Turkish telli (wired, stringed, funicular)).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /těli/
  • Hyphenation: те‧ли

Adjective

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тѐли (Latin spelling tèli) (indeclinable)

  1. embroidered, ornamented, interwoven with golden or silver wire

Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tēlbe.

Adjective

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тели (teli)

  1. mad

References

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  • Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, page 215 pages