telja

From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

telja (third person singular past indicative taldi, third person plural past indicative talt, supine talt)

1. to count
2. to tell

• fortelja
• siga frá

• tosa
• práta
• spyrja
• svara

From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɛlja/
• Rhymes: -ɛlja

telja (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative taldi, supine talið)

1. to count [intransitive or with accusative]

   Hún kann að telja upp að tíu á japönsku.

   She can count to ten in Japanese.

2. to believe, think [intransitive or with accusative]

   Synonyms: halda, hyggja

j=j

From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

• telje (e infinitive)

telja (present tense tel, past tense talde, past participle talt, passive infinitive teljast, present participle teljande, imperative tel)

1. to count

May be comparable with Icelandic tölva and Faroese telda.

telja

1. (High Norwegian) computer

• “telja” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *taljaną (“to count, tell”). Cognate with Old English tellan, Old Frisian tella, Old Saxon tellian, Old High German zellen.

telja (singular past indicative taldi, plural past indicative tǫldu, past participle taldr or taliðr)

1. to count, number
2. to tell, say
3. to reckon, consider

• Icelandic: telja
• Faroese: telja
• Norwegian Nynorsk: telja
• Old Swedish: tælia
  • Swedish: tälja
• Danish: tælle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: telle

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “telja”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive