Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/teldą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Derived from *teldaną (“to cover”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtel.dɑ̃/

Noun

*teldą n

tent, drape

Inflection

Declension of *teldą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*teldą	*teldō
vocative	*teldą	*teldō
accusative	*teldą	*teldō
genitive	teldas, tildis	*teldǫ̂
dative	*teldai	*teldamaz
instrumental	*teldō	*teldamiz

Derived terms

*teldōną

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
- Old Frisian: *teld
  - Saterland Frisian: Tält; Tälte f
- Old Saxon: *teld
  - Middle Low German: telt
    - Low German: Teld
      - German Low German: Telt
    - → Norwegian: telt
    - → Swedish: tält
      - → Finnish: teltta
    - → Danish: telt
      - → Middle English: telte (possibly)
        English: tilt
- Old Dutch: *teld
  - Middle Dutch: telt, telde
    - Dutch: telde (obsolete)
    - ⇒ Middle Dutch: getelde, getelt
- Old High German: zëlt
  - Middle High German: zëlt
    - German: Zelt
    - Luxembourgish: Zelt
Old Norse: tjald
- Icelandic: tjald
- Faroese: tjald
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tjeld
- Old Swedish: tiæld
  - Swedish: tjäll
- Danish: tjæld
  - Norwegian Bokmål: tjeld
- Finland lects: tjäld (Northern Quark islands)
→ Proto-Finnic: *tëlta
- Finnish: telta

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*telda-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 512-3

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*telda-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 512-3

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