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teld

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of teld

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)A tent.
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noun

  1. (obsolete)A tent.

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To lodge in a tent.
  2. (obsolete, transitive)To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.
  3. (West-Country, Yorkshire, form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of tell
    “I teld you what happened.”

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Etymology

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.

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