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teld

The English word “teld” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A tent.

verb

  1. To lodge in a tent.
  2. To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.

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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