# felt
## English
### Alternative forms

* felte (archaic)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛlt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛlt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

#### Noun

felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts)
* A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
** c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.
* A hat made of felt.
* A felt-tip pen.
** 1989, Anne D. Forester, Margaret Reinhard, The Learners' Way, page 116:You'll notice that all the illustrations are done in different media: some with pencil crayons, some with felts, some with paint, some with chalk pastels.
* (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
** 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

##### Derived terms

* antifelt
* coated felt sheet
* felt grain
* feltless
* feltlike
* feltmaker
* feltmaking
* feltmonger
* feltness
* felt scale
* felt-tip pen
* feltwork
* feltwort
* felty
* glass felt
* needlefelt
* saturated felt

##### Translations
#### Verb

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)
* (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
** a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:the same Wool , for instance , one Men felts it into a Hat, another weaves it into Cloth , another weaves it into Kersey or Serge
* (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.
    to felt the cylinder of a steam engine
* (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.

##### Derived terms

* refelt

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel +‎ -ed.

#### Verb

felt
* simple past and past participle of feel

#### Adjective

felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)
* That has been experienced or perceived.
** 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 257:Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.

##### Derived terms

* deepfelt
* heartfelt
* homefelt
* infelt
* underfelt
* unfelt

### Anagrams

* flet, Left, TEFL, FLET, left

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Middle Low German velt, from Old Saxon feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu.
Gender changed by influence from mark.

#### Noun

felt c (singular definite felten, not used in plural form)
* field (the practical part of something)
* (e.g., sciences, military) field; an outlying area, as opposed to e.g. the lab, office or barracks
** 2017, Palle Lauring, Svenskekrige og enevoldsmagt, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:Han oplevede hele Tredveårskrigen i felten, fra først til sidst.He experienced all of the thirty-years war in the field, from the beginning to the end.
** 1913, Anno 13 [i.e. tretten]: Tysklands rejsning mod Napoleon for 100 år siden:Han var rykket i Felten som Kaptain og Kompagnifører, men var dog nu blevet forfremmet til Major, ...He had deployed as a captain and a company-leader, but had now been promoted to major, ...
** 1986, Johannes Møllehave, Vor tids tid: nutidige og utidige tids- og tankespring:Efter anden verdenskrig skrev Theodor W. Adorno: »Bemærkede man da ikke ved krigsslutningen, at folk kom stumme tilbage fra felten?(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2012, Daniel Silva, Portræt af en spion: En Gabriel Allon-roman, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:Han overvågede Sovjetunionens sammenbrud, ikke ude fra felten, men fra et komfortabelt kontor i Langley, ...He surveyed the collapse of the Soviet Union, not from the field, but from a comfortable office in Langley, ...
** 1918, Georg Friedrich Nicolai, Krigens Biologi:... Officerer og Mandskab, som vendte hjem fra Felten, ...(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1986, Grønland: årsberetning:I felten blev der ikke observeret nogen torske larver i prøverne, ...In the field, no cod larvae were observed in the samples, ...
** 1993, Danmarks geologiske undersøgelse, Årsberetning for ... ; Arbejdsprogram ...:En af instituttets vigtigste opgaver i forbindelse med geologiske undersøgelser er dataindsamling i felten.One of the institute's most important tasks relating to the geological surveys is data collection in the field.

##### Derived terms

* feltarbejde
* feltflaske
* feltfod
* feltherre
* felthær
* feltkøkken
* feltlazaret
* feltmadras
* feltmarskal
* feltmæssig
* feltpræst
* feltråb
* feltseng
* felttog
* feltundersøgelse
* i felten
* til felts

### Etymology 2

From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu.

#### Noun

felt n (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)
* field
* sphere, province
* square

##### Derived terms

* centralfelt
* fodgængerfelt
* forfelt
* førerfelt
* gammafelt
* gåfelt
* kraftfelt
* krydsfelt
* kulfelt
* magnetfelt
* minefelt
* neksusfelt
* skalarfelt
* slutfelt
* spændingsfelt
* synsfelt
* vektorfelt
* virkefelt

### References

* “felt” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “felt,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* felte, feltte, feelte

### Etymology

From Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛlt/

### Noun

felt (plural feltes)
* Felted fabric or a sample or swab of it; felt.
* A piece of headgear made from felted fabric; a felt hat.

#### Derived terms

* felten
* felter

#### Descendants

* English: felt
* Scots: felt

#### References

* “felt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From German Feld.

#### Noun

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt or felter, definite plural felta or feltene)
* field

##### Derived terms

* boligfelt
* fagfelt
* fotgjengerfelt
* gangfelt
* gassfelt
* kjørefelt
* magnetfelt
* minefelt
* nedbørfelt
* oljefelt
* skytefelt
* synsfelt

### Etymology 2

From Middle Low German velt.

#### Noun

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)
* field (in the military sense)

##### Derived terms

* feltarbeid (from English)
* feltprest
* feltrasjon
* felttog

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

felt
* past participle of felle

### References

* “felt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* NAOB

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From German Feld.

#### Noun

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt, definite plural felta)
* field

##### Derived terms

* bustadfelt
* fagfelt
* gangfelt
* gassfelt
* magnetfelt
* minefelt
* nedbørfelt
* oljefelt
* skytefelt
* synsfelt

### Etymology 2

From Middle Low German velt.

#### Noun

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)
* field (in the military sense)

##### Derived terms

* feltarbeid (from English)
* feltprest
* feltrasjon
* felttog

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

felt
* past participle of fella

### References

* “felt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Dutch
### Alternative forms

* feld
* ueld

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz.

### Noun

felt n
* field

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: velt
** Dutch: veld
*** Afrikaans: veld
**** → English: veld
*** Negerhollands: veld
*** → Caribbean Javanese: fèlt

#### Further reading

* “felt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *felt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /felt/, [feɫt]

### Noun

felt m
* felt

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: felt, felte, feltte, feelte
** English: felt
** Scots: felt

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English felde, from Old English fylde.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɛlt/

### Verb

felt
* simple past of vill

### 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 40