teld

English edit

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.

teld (plural telds)

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)

(transitive, obsolete) To lodge in a tent.
(transitive, obsolete) To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.

teld

(West Country, Yorkshire, Devon) simple past and past participle of tell
I teld you what happened.

teld n

tent
Uton āslēan ūre teld hēr on þisse mǣdwe.
Let's pitch our tent here in this meadow.

Declension of teld (strong a-stem)