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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/teldą
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Derived from *teldaną (“to cover”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtel.dɑ̃/
Noun
*teldą n
- tent, drape
Inflection
| neuter a-stemDeclension of *teldą (neuter a-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *teldą | *teldō | |
| vocative | *teldą | *teldō | |
| accusative | *teldą | *teldō | |
| genitive | *teldas, *tildis | *teldǫ̂ | |
| dative | *tildai | *teldamaz | |
| instrumental | *teldō | *teldamiz | |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *teld
- Old English: teld
- Middle English: teld, tield, telte
- Scots: tild, tyld, teill
- English: teld, tilt
- ⇒ Old English: ġeteld
- → English: geteld
- Middle English: teld, tield, telte
- Old Frisian: *teld, *telt
- Saterland Frisian: Tält; Tälte f
- Old Saxon: *teld
- Middle Low German: telt
- German Low German: Telt
- → Norwegian: telt
- → Swedish: tält
- → Finnish: teltta
- → Danish: telt
- → Middle English: telte (possibly)
- English: tilt
- → Middle English: telte (possibly)
- Middle Low German: telt
- Old Dutch: *telt
- Middle Dutch: telt, telde
- Old High German: zelt
- Middle High German: zëlt
- German: Zelt
- Luxembourgish: Zelt
- Middle High German: zëlt
- Old English: teld
- Old Norse: tjald
- Icelandic: tjald
- Faroese: tjald
- Old Swedish: tiæld
- Swedish: tjäll
- Danish: tjæld
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: tjeld
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tjeld
- Finland lects: tjäld (Northern Quark islands)
- Westrobothnian: tjäll
- → Proto-Finnic: *telta
- Finnish: telta
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 512