teil
See also: Teil
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tiːl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /til/
Noun
teil (plural teils)
- 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.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “teil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Dutch
Alternative forms
- teel (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch têle, teile, from Old Dutch tēla, *teila, from earlier tegela, and therefore a doublet of tegel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛi̯l/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: teil
- Rhymes: -ɛi̯l
Noun
teil f (plural teilen, diminutive teiltje n)
- 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
- 1964, The Lighttown Skiffle Group, "Doe 't maar in een emmertje", on Hé zusje - Doe 't maar in een emmertje.
- tray or pot used for serving a dish
Derived terms
- badteil
- wasteil
Finnish
Middle English
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English eilen. Initial t- is a dental addition after /d/.
References
- 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
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