tella

See also: Tella and -tella

English

Alternative forms

• talla

Etymology

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Noun

tella (uncountable)

1. A traditional beer from Ethiopia and Eritrea, brewed from various grains.

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese tella, from Vulgar Latin *tegla, from Latin tēgula. Cognate with Portuguese telha and Spanish teja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteʎa̝/

Noun

tella f (plural tellas)

1. roof tile

Derived terms

• tellado
• tellar
• telleira

References

• “tella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “tella” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tella” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tella” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

tella

1. inflection of tellar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tella

1. split infinitive of telle (non-standard since 2005)