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From Middle English telt, dialectal first and third person singular past indicative of Middle English tellen, equivalent to tell +‎ -t.

telt

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) simple past and past participle of tell
    Get him telt he's tae come hame noo
    you'll dae as yer mam's telt ya

From Middle Low German telt, from Proto-Germanic *teldą. Cognate with German Zelt and Old Norse tjald (“tent”) (whence Norwegian Bokmål tjeld, Swedish tjäll, and Danish tjæld). English tilt and Swedish tält were also borrowed from Low German.

telt n (singular definite teltet, plural indefinite telte)

  1. a tent

telt

  1. inflection of tellen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

From the verb telik.[1]

telt

  1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of telik
    Hogy telt ma a napod? ― How was your day?

telt

  1. past participle of telik: that which has (been) filled (up)

telt (comparative teltebb, superlative legteltebb)

  1. full
    Synonyms: teli, töltött

  2. plump (figure)
    Synonyms: teltkarcsú, molett, pufi, duci

  3. ^ Eőry, Vilma (2007), Értelmező szótár+ [Explanatory Dictionary Plus]‎[1] (in Hungarian), Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, →ISBN

From Old English teld (“tent”), Danish telt. Became tilt in Late Middle English.

telt (plural telts)

  1. a cloth covering, an awning

From Middle Low German telt.

telt n (definite singular teltet, indefinite plural **telt or telter, definite plural telta or teltene)

  1. a tent

telt

  1. past participle of telle

From Middle Low German telt. Doublet of tjeld.

telt n (definite singular teltet, indefinite plural **telt, definite plural telta)

  1. a tent
    Synonym: tjeld

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