Danish

Noun

telts

1. genitive singular indefinite of telt

Latvian

Etymology

A borrowing from Middle Low German telt ‎(“tent”). Compare German Zelt. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del- ‎(“split, cut”), whence Proto-Germanic *teldą. From the same Proto-Indo-European source Latvian dalīt ‎(“divide”), deldēt ‎(“wear out”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tēlts]

Noun

telts f (6 declension)

1. tent

Declension

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “telts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7