# tellen
## English

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### Etymology 1

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#### Noun

tellen (plural tellens)
* (zoology) Archaic spelling of tellin.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛlən/

#### Verb

tellen
* (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, 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, 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, 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.

### References

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

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛ.lə(n)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tel‧len
* Rhymes: -ɛlən

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Verb

tellen
* (transitive) to count, to enumerate
* (transitive) to determine the number of
* (intransitive) to matter, to be of significance

##### Derived terms

* tel
* telraam
* aantellen
* aftellen
* betellen
* bijeentellen
* bijtellen
* doortellen
* getellen
* heentellen
* hertellen
* medetellen
* meetellen
* mistellen
* natellen
* nedertellen
* neertellen
* omtellen
* ondertellen
* onttellen
* optellen
* overtellen
* rondtellen
* samentellen
* terugtellen
* toetellen
* uittellen
* vertellen
* voltellen
* voortellen
* voorttellen
* zijn knopen tellen

##### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

tellen
* plural of tel

## Galician
### Verb

tellen
* inflection of tellar:
** third-person plural present subjunctive
** third-person plural imperative

## Low German
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛlən/

### Verb

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

#### Conjugation

Note: This conjugation is one of many. Neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects.

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch tellen

### Verb

tellen
* to count, to calculate
* to count as, to consider as
* to tell, to say

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: tellen
* Limburgish: tèlle

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Etymology

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

### Verb

tellen
* to count
* to tell

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Descendants

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

#### References

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

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tellən/, [t(ʰ)elˠːə̃n] or IPA: /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].

### Verb

tellen
* to count, to tell

#### Related terms

* vortellen

#### Descendants

* Low German: tellen

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *talljan.

### Verb

tellen
* to tell, to say
* to count

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: tellen
** Dutch: tellen
** Limburgish: tèlle

#### Further reading

* “tellen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012