felt

See also: Felt, FELT, and félt

English

Felt cloths.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛlt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”) (adj.), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

Noun

felt (countable and uncountable, plural felts)

1. A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Shakespeare, King Lear, act 4, scene 6:

     It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt.

2. A hat made of felt.
3. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
   • 1707, John Mortimer, The whole art of husbandry:

     To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose.

Related terms

• felt grain: the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. — Knight
• felt-tip pen
• coated felt sheet
• saturated felt

Translations

cloth made of matted fibres of wool

• Albanian: plis (sq) m
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: لبد m (libd)

• Armenian: թաղիք (hy) (tʻaġikʻ)
• Asturian: fieltru m
• Bashkir: кейеҙ (keyeź)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: филц m (filc)
• Catalan: feltre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛氈／毛毡 (zh) (máozhān), 毛毡 (zh) (máozhān)

• Czech: plsť (cs) f, filc (cs) m
• Danish: filt n
• Dutch: vilt (nl) n
• Esperanto: felto (eo)
• Estonian: vilt
• Finnish: huopa (fi)
• French: feutre (fr) m, feutrine (fr) f
• Galician: feltro m
• Georgian: თექა (teka)
• German: Filz (de) n
• Greek: κετσές (el) m (ketsés)

  Ancient: πῖλος m (pîlos)

• Hebrew: לבד (he) m (léved)
• Hindi: नमदा (hi) (namdā)
• Hungarian: nemez (hu), filc (hu)
• Ido: felto (io)
• Italian: feltro (it) m
• Japanese: フェルト (feruto), 羅紗 (らしゃ, rasha), 毛氈 (ja) (もうせん, mōsen)
• Kazakh: киіз (kiız)
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• Khmer: សំបុក (km) (sɑmbok)
• Korean: 펠트 (pelteu)
• Kyrgyz: кийиз (kiyiz)
• Latin: coactum n
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: veltinys
• Luxembourgish: Filz m
• Maori: kirihuru
• Mongolian: эсгий (mn) (esgii)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: filt (no) m

  Nynorsk: filt m

• Old English: felt m
• Persian: نمد (fa) (namad)
• Polish: filc (pl)
• Portuguese: feltro (pt) m
• Romanian: pâslă (ro) f
• Russian: фетр (ru) m (fetr), во́йлок (ru) m (vójlok)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пуст m, филц m

  Roman: pust (sh) m, filc (sh) m

• Slovak: plsť f
• Spanish: fieltro (es) m
• Swedish: filt (sv) c
• Tagalog: pyeltro, piyeltro
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: ཕྱིང་པ (phying pa)
• Turkish: aba (tr), keçe (tr), kiyiz (tr) (dialect)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can

hat made of felt

• Bulgarian: филцова шапка f (filcova šapka)
• Czech: plsťák (cs) m, plstěný klobouk m
• Danish: filthat c
• Finnish: huopahattu (fi)
• French: feutre (fr) m
• German: Filzhut (de) m
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• Hungarian: nemezkalap (hu)
• Khmer: មួកសំបុក (muəksɑmbok)
• Norwegian: filthatt m
• Portuguese: feltro (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian: pusteni šešir m
• Turkish: fötr (tr)

Verb

felt (third-person singular simple present felts, present participle felting, simple past and past participle felted)

1. (transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir M. Hale to this entry?)

2. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.

   to felt the cylinder of a steam engine

3. (transitive, poker) To cause a player to lose all their chips.

Translations

make into felt

• Dutch: vilten (nl)
• Finnish: huovuttaa (fi)
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• German: filzen (de)
• Portuguese: feltrar

cover with felt

• Danish: filte
• Finnish: huovittaa (fi)
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• Portuguese: feltrar

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Translations to be checked

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} filta
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Etymology 2

Old English fēled, corresponding to feel +‎ -ed.

Verb

felt

1. simple past and past participle of feel

Adjective

felt (comparative more felt, superlative most felt)

1. That has been experienced or perceived.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 257:

     Conversions to Islam can therefore be a deeply felt aesthetic experience that rarely occurs in Christian accounts of conversion, which are generally the source rather than the result of a Christian experience of beauty.

Anagrams

• TEFL, flet, left

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German velt, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“flat”).

Gender changed by influence from mark.

Noun

felt c (singular definite felten, not used in plural form)

1. field (the practical part of something)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• n
• c
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• n

• n
• c
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• feltmæssig
• c
• n

• c
• n
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• i felten
• til felts

Etymology 2

From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“flat”).

Noun

felt n (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)

1. field
2. sphere, province
3. square

Inflection

Declension of felt

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	felt	feltet	felter	felterne
genitive	felts	feltets	felters	felternes

Derived terms

Derived terms

• n
• n
• n
• n
• n
• n

• n
• n
• n
• n
• n
• n

• n
• n
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References

• “felt” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “felt,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Middle English

felt

Alternative forms

• felte, feltte, feelte

Etymology

From Old English felt, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛlt/

Noun

felt (plural feltes)

1. Felted fabric or a sample or swab of it; felt.
2. A piece of headgear made from felted fabric; a felt hat.

Derived terms

• felten
• felter

Descendants

• English: felt
• Scots: felt

References

• “felt (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German Feld

Noun

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt or felter, definite plural felta or feltene)

1. field

Derived terms

Terms derived from felt

• boligfelt
• fagfelt
• fotgjengerfelt
• gangfelt

• gassfelt
• kjørefelt
• magnetfelt
• minefelt

• nedbørfelt
• oljefelt
• skytefelt
• synsfelt

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German velt

Noun

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)

1. field (in the military sense)

Derived terms

• feltarbeid (from English)
• feltprest
• feltrasjon
• felttog

Etymology 3

Verb

felt

1. past participle of felle

References

• “felt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB [1]

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German Feld

Noun

felt n (definite singular feltet, indefinite plural felt, definite plural felta)

1. field

Derived terms

Terms derived from felt

• bustadfelt
• fagfelt
• gangfelt
• gassfelt

• magnetfelt
• minefelt
• nedbørfelt

• oljefelt
• skytefelt
• synsfelt

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German velt

Noun

felt m (definite singular felten, uncountable)

1. field (in the military sense)

Derived terms

• feltarbeid (from English)
• feltprest
• feltrasjon
• felttog

Etymology 3

Verb

felt

1. past participle of fella

References

• “felt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *felþą.

Noun

felt n

1. field

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: velt
  • Dutch: veld

Further reading

• “felt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *feltaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /felt/, [feɫt]

Noun

felt m

1. felt

Declension

Declension of felt (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	felt	feltas
accusative	felt	feltas
genitive	feltes	felta
dative	felte	feltum

Descendants

• Middle English: felt
  • Scots: felt
  • English: felt

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Westrobothnian

Adjective

1. urgent, necessary, pressing, important

   Fäll var ä felt

   Certainly it was necessary.

   Hä jär int na felt om hä

   There is no hurry therewith.