"tellen" meaning in Middle English

See tellen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Etymology: From Old English tellan, from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|tellan}} Old English tellan, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*talljan}} Proto-West Germanic *talljan, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*taljaną}} Proto-Germanic *taljaną Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} tellen Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|tell|told|c=irr}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], tellen [infinitive], to tellen [infinitive], telle [infinitive], telle [first-person, present, singular], tolde [first-person, past, singular], tellest [present, second-person, singular], toldest [past, second-person, singular], telleth [present, singular, third-person], tolde [past, singular, third-person], telle [present, singular, subjunctive], tolde [past, singular, subjunctive], telle [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], tellen [plural, present], telle [plural, present], tolden [past, plural], tolde [past, plural], telleth [imperative, plural, present], telle [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], tellynge [participle, present], tellende [participle, present], told [participle, past], ytold [participle, past]
  1. to count
    Sense id: en-tellen-enm-verb-Ty~A-DMC Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. to tell
    Sense id: en-tellen-enm-verb-cQpNzvhp Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "tell"
          },
          "expansion": "English: tell",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: tell"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "tell"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: tell",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: tell"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yol",
            "2": "tolth",
            "alts": "1",
            "qq": "preterite"
          },
          "expansion": "Yola: tolth, told (preterite)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Yola: tolth, told (preterite)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "tellan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English tellan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*talljan"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *talljan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*taljaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *taljaną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English tellan, from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to tellen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toldest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telleth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telleth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ytold",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "tellen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tell",
        "2": "told",
        "c": "irr"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to count"
      ],
      "id": "en-tellen-enm-verb-Ty~A-DMC",
      "links": [
        [
          "count",
          "count"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to tell"
      ],
      "id": "en-tellen-enm-verb-cQpNzvhp",
      "links": [
        [
          "tell",
          "tell"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tellen"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English irregular weak verbs",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English verbs",
    "Middle English weak verbs",
    "Old Dutch basic verbs",
    "Old Dutch class 1 weak rückumlaut verbs",
    "Old Dutch class 1 weak verbs",
    "Old Dutch entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old Dutch irregular verbs",
    "Old Dutch lemmas",
    "Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old Dutch verbs",
    "Pages with 8 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "tell"
          },
          "expansion": "English: tell",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: tell"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sco",
            "2": "tell"
          },
          "expansion": "Scots: tell",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Scots: tell"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "yol",
            "2": "tolth",
            "alts": "1",
            "qq": "preterite"
          },
          "expansion": "Yola: tolth, told (preterite)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Yola: tolth, told (preterite)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "tellan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English tellan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*talljan"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *talljan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*taljaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *taljaną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English tellan, from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to tellen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toldest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telleth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tolde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telleth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "telle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tellende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "told",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ytold",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "tellen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tell",
        "2": "told",
        "c": "irr"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to count"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "count",
          "count"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to tell"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tell",
          "tell"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tellen"
}

Download raw JSONL data for tellen meaning in Middle English (4.4kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-20 using wiktextract (813e02a and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.