tellen

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tellen (plural tellens)

1. (zoology) Archaic spelling of tellin.

tellen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: tel‧len
• Rhymes: -ɛlən

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

tellen

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

• aftellen
• optellen
• vertellen

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tellen

1. Plural form of tel

From Middle Low German tellen, from Old Saxon tellian, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną. Cognate with Dutch tellen, German zählen, West Frisian telle, English tell, Danish tælle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛlːən/

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

1. to count, to tell

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

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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

• “tellen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012