Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/teldą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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

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

Descendants

Old English: teld
- Middle English: teld, tielde
  - Scots: tild, tyld, teill
  - English: teld, tilt
Old Saxon: *teld
- Middle Low German: telt
  - Norwegian: telt
  - Swedish: tält
    - → Finnish: teltta
  - Danish: telt
    - Middle English: telt
      - English: tilt
Old Dutch: *telt
- Middle Dutch: telt, telde
Old High German: zelt
- Middle High German: zëlt
  - German: Zelt
  - Luxembourgish: Zelt
Old Norse: tjald
- Icelandic: tjald
- Faroese: tjald
- Old Swedish: tiæld
  - Swedish: tjäll
- Danish: tjæld
- Norwegian:
  - Bokmål: tjeld
  - Nynorsk: tjeld
- Finland lects: tjäld (Northern Quark islands)
- Westrobothnian: tjäll

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 512

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 512