teil

See also: Teil

English

Alternative forms

• til

Etymology

From Old French teil, til, from Latin tilia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tiːl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /til/

Noun

teil (plural teils)

1. The lime tree, or linden.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 6:13:

     But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “teil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• -lite, IELT, Tiel, lite, tiel, tile

Dutch

Alternative forms

• teel (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch têle, teile, from Old Dutch tēla, *teila, from earlier tegela, and therefore a doublet of tegel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛi̯l/

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• Hyphenation: teil
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯l

Noun

teil f (plural teilen, diminutive teiltje n)

1. tub, basin (wide vessel with generally a larger volume than a bucket)
   • 1964, The Lighttown Skiffle Group, "Doe 't maar in een emmertje", on Hé zusje - Doe 't maar in een emmertje.

     Wij drinken nooit uit glaasjes / Dat is beneden peil / Doe 't maar in een emmertje / Doe 't maar in een teil

     We never drink out of glasses / That is below our level / Just put it in a bucket / Just put it in a tub

   Synonym: tobbe

2. tray or pot used for serving a dish

Derived terms

• badteil
• wasteil

Estonian

Noun

teil

1. adessive plural of tee

Finnish

Pronoun

teil

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of teillä.

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

teil

1. singular imperative of teilen

Kriol

Etymology

From English tail.

Noun

teil

1. tail (appendage of an animal)

Middle English

Noun

teil

1. Alternative form of tayl

Veps

Pronoun

teil

1. adessive of tö

Noun

teil

1. adessive plural of te

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English eilen. Initial t- is a dental addition after /d/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːɫ/
• Homophone: tyel

Verb

teil

1. to ail
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Fade teil.

     What ails.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 71 & 84