Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorysimple past and past participle of tell
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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