teil

• til

From Old French teil, til, from Latin tilia.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tiːl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /til/

teil (plural teils)

1. (obsolete) The lime tree, or linden.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 6:13:

     But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

• “teil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• -lite, IELT, Tiel, lite, tiel, tile

From English tail.

teil

1. tail (appendage of an animal)

• teel (dialectal)

From Middle Dutch têle, teile, from Old Dutch tēla, *teila, from earlier tegela, and therefore a doublet of tegel.

• IPA^(key): /tɛi̯l/

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• Hyphenation: teil
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯l

teil f (plural teilen, diminutive teiltje n)

1. tub, basin (wide vessel with generally a larger volume than a bucket)
   • 1964, The Lighttown Skiffle Group, "Doe 't maar in een emmertje", on Hé zusje - Doe 't maar in een emmertje.

     Wij drinken nooit uit glaasjes / Dat is beneden peil / Doe 't maar in een emmertje / Doe 't maar in een teil

     We never drink out of glasses / That is below our level / Just put it in a bucket / Just put it in a tub

   Synonym: tobbe

2. tray or pot used for serving a dish

• badteil
• wasteil

teil

1. adessive plural of tee

teil

1. adessive of te

teil

1. (colloquial) alternative form of teillä

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teil

1. singular imperative of teilen

teil

1. adessive plural of tee

teil

1. adessive of töö

teil

1. alternative form of tayl

teil

1. adessive of tö

teil

1. adessive plural of te

From Middle English eilen. Initial t- is a dental addition after /d/.

• IPA^(key): /teːl/

teil

1. to ail
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Fade teil.

     What ails.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 71 & 84