teld

Meanings

Noun

• A tent.

Verb

• To lodge in a tent.
• To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; to set up.
• Past of tell

Origin

• 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, German Zelt ("tent"), Swedish tält ("tent"), Icelandic tjald ("tent"). tilt, and geteld.
• From Middle English telden ("to set up a tent"), from teld. See above.