"telja" meaning in Faroese

See telja in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Etymology: From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną. Etymology templates: {{der|fo|non|telja}} Old Norse telja, {{der|fo|gem-pro|*taljaną}} Proto-Germanic *taljaną Head templates: {{head|fo|verb|||||third person singular past indicative|taldi|third person plural past indicative|talt|supine|talt|f3request=1|f4request=1|f5request=1|head=}} telja (third person singular past indicative taldi, third person plural past indicative talt, supine talt), {{fo-verb|taldi|talt}} telja (third person singular past indicative taldi, third person plural past indicative talt, supine talt) Forms: taldi [indicative, past, singular, third-person], talt [indicative, past, plural, third-person], talt [supine], no-table-tags [table-tags], telja [infinitive], talt [supine], telji [first-person, present, singular], taldi [first-person, past, singular], telur [present, second-person, singular], taldi [past, second-person, singular], telur [present, singular, third-person], taldi [past, singular, third-person], telja [plural, present], taldu [past, plural], teljandi [participle, present], taldur [participle, past], tel! [imperative, singular], teljið! [imperative, plural]
  1. to count
    Sense id: en-telja-fo-verb-Ty~A-DMC Categories (other): Faroese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Faroese entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. to tell
    Sense id: en-telja-fo-verb-cQpNzvhp Categories (other): Faroese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Faroese entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fortelja, siga frá Related terms: tosa, práta, spyrja, svara

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "telja",
      "telja#Old_Norse"
    ],
    [
      "*taljaną",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/taljaną"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "telja"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse telja",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*taljaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *taljaną",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "taldi",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talt",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talt",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telja",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telji",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telur",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telur",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telja",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "teljandi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldur",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tel!",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "teljið!",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "10": "talt",
        "11": "supine",
        "12": "talt",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "third person singular past indicative",
        "8": "taldi",
        "9": "third person plural past indicative",
        "f3request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "f5request": "1",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "telja (third person singular past indicative taldi, third person plural past indicative talt, supine talt)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "taldi",
        "2": "talt"
      },
      "expansion": "telja (third person singular past indicative taldi, third person plural past indicative talt, supine talt)",
      "name": "fo-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Faroese",
  "lang_code": "fo",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "tosa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "práta"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "spyrja"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "svara"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Faroese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to count"
      ],
      "id": "en-telja-fo-verb-Ty~A-DMC",
      "links": [
        [
          "count",
          "count"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Faroese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to tell"
      ],
      "id": "en-telja-fo-verb-cQpNzvhp",
      "links": [
        [
          "tell",
          "tell"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fortelja"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "siga frá"
    }
  ],
  "word": "telja"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Faroese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Faroese lemmas",
    "Faroese terms derived from Old Norse",
    "Faroese terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Faroese verbs",
    "Old Norse class 1 weak light-stem verbs",
    "Old Norse entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old Norse lemmas",
    "Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old Norse verbs",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "telja",
      "telja#Old_Norse"
    ],
    [
      "*taljaną",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/taljaną"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "telja"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse telja",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*taljaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *taljaną",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse telja, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "taldi",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talt",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talt",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telja",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "talt",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telji",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telur",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telur",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telja",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "teljandi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taldur",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tel!",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "teljið!",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "10": "talt",
        "11": "supine",
        "12": "talt",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "third person singular past indicative",
        "8": "taldi",
        "9": "third person plural past indicative",
        "f3request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "f5request": "1",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "telja (third person singular past indicative taldi, third person plural past indicative talt, supine talt)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "taldi",
        "2": "talt"
      },
      "expansion": "telja (third person singular past indicative taldi, third person plural past indicative talt, supine talt)",
      "name": "fo-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Faroese",
  "lang_code": "fo",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "tosa"
    },
    {
      "word": "práta"
    },
    {
      "word": "spyrja"
    },
    {
      "word": "svara"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to count"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "count",
          "count"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to tell"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tell",
          "tell"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fortelja"
    },
    {
      "word": "siga frá"
    }
  ],
  "word": "telja"
}

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