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Webster 1913 Edition

Told

Told

(tōld)
,
imp.
&
p.
p.
of
Tell
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Told

TOLD

, pret. and pp. of tell.
Who told thee that thou wast naked? Gen.3.
Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judges 16.
--Sheep and oxen that could not be told. 1 Kings 8.

Definition 2024

told

told

English

Alternative forms

Verb

told

  1. simple past tense and past participle of tell

Translations

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: world · thing · set · #196: told · both · having · look

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔl/, [tˢʌlˀ]
  • Homophone: tolv

Noun

told c (singular definite tolden, not used in plural form)

  1. duty, tariff (tax placed on imports or exports)

Hungarian

Etymology

Possibly from the verb tol +‎ -d ‎(“frequentative suffix”). [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtold]

Verb

told

  1. to add, to splice

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

  • kitold
  • megtold

References

  1. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6

Etymology

From Middle English tolde, talde ‎(first and third person singular preterite), from Old English tealde ‎(first and third person singular preterite), from Proto-Germanic *talid-, preterite stem of Proto-Germanic *taljaną ‎(“to count; tell”), equivalent to tell +‎ -ed.

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