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tellen (plural tellens)

1. (zoology) Archaic spelling of tellin.

From Middle English tellen, equivalent to tell +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlən/

tellen

1. (obsolete, dialectal) plural simple present of tell
   • 1879, Georgina F. Jackson, “KILL, sb.”, in Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used in the County‎^[1], London: Trübner & Company, page 233:

     They tellen me as them furrin 'tatoes bin kill-dried afore they comen 'ere, so they bin no good fur settin'.

   • 1881, Benjamin Brierly, “Fain”, in Ab-o'th'-yate's Dictionary: Or Walmsley Fowt Skoomester‎^[2], Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, page 72:

     A dog, when it's had th' tin kettle unteed fro its tail, an' yo' geen it a feed of wut-cake an' milk, an' yo' tellen it to lie deawn upo' th' hearthstone, an' if it's a mind to stop wheere it is it may.

   • 1905 May 13, M. E. Francis, “Mrs Gradwell's Piano”, in Country Life‎^[3], volume XVII, number 436, Country Life, Limited, page 678:

     Hoo'll never do no good at the music, they tellen her up at the school, wi'out hoo practises reg'lar, an' it's unpossible for her to do that wi'out we has a pianney i' the 'ouse.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.lə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: tel‧len
• Rhymes: -ɛlən

From Middle Dutch tellen, from Old Dutch tellen, from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

Equivalent to tal (“number”) +‎ -en (“denominative”) or taal (“language”) +‎ -en (“denominative”) and shows the effect of historical umlaut.

tellen

1. (transitive) to count, to enumerate
2. (transitive) to determine the number of
3. (intransitive) to matter, to be of significance

• Afrikaans: tel
• Berbice Creole Dutch: tali
• Negerhollands: tel
• → Sranan Tongo: teri
  • → Aukan: teli

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tellen

1. plural of tel

tellen

1. inflection of tellar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

From Middle Low German tellen, from Old Saxon tellian.

Cognate with Dutch tellen, German zählen, West Frisian telle, English tell (“to narrate, inform, say”), Danish tælle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.lən/

tellen (past singular tell, past participle tellt, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to count

From Old Dutch tellen

tellen

1. to count, to calculate
2. to count as, to consider as
3. to tell, to say

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: tellen
• Limburgish: tèlle

• “tellen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “tellen (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

From Old English tellan, from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.

tellen

1. to count
2. to tell

• English: tell
• Scots: tell
• Yola: tolth, told (preterite)

• “tellen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old Saxon tellian. Cognate with Dutch tellen and English tell.

• IPA^(key): /tellən/, [t(ʰ)elˠːə̃n] or IPA^(key): /tɛllən/, [t(ʰ)ɛlˠːə̃n]
• The raising of [ɛ] to [e] might have been blocked by /lC/, as this combination prevented a lowering of [ʊ] to [ɔ].

tellen

1. to count, to tell

• vortellen

• Low German: tellen

From Proto-West Germanic *talljan.

tellen

1. to tell, to say
2. to count

• Middle Dutch: tellen
  • Dutch: tellen
  • Limburgish: tèlle

• “tellen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012