telega

See also: Telega, telegą, téléga, and Telęga

English

A telega in 1914

Etymology

From mid-16th century Russian теле́га (teléga), probably from Khazar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪˈleɪɡə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

telega (plural telegas or telegi)

1. A simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs.
   • 1868, “Route 25: London to Pekin […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 329:

     Three kinds of conveyances are available: the telega, or cart without springs, which has to be changed at every station, and for which a charge of about 8d. is made at every stage; the kibitka, or cart (in winter a sledge) with a hood; and the tarantas, a kind of carriage on wooden springs, which admits of the traveller lying down full length, and which can be made very comfortable at night.

Translations

a simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs

• Altai:

  Southern Altai: абра (abra)

• Bashkir: арба (arba)
• Belarusian: калёсы n pl (kaljósy), цяле́га f (cjaljéha), воз (be) m (voz)
• Finnish: rattaat (fi) pl, kärryt (fi)
• French: téléga (fr) f, télègue (fr) f
• German: Telege (de) f
• Japanese: テレガ (terega)
• Kazakh: арба (arba)
• Korean: 뗄레가 (ttellega), 텔레가 (tellega)
• Kyrgyz: арба (arba)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: телѣга f (telěga), возъ m (vozŭ)

• Polish: telega f
• Portuguese: telega f
• Russian: теле́га (ru) f (teléga), арба́ (ru) f (arbá) (araba), воз (ru) m (voz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: та̀љиге pl

  Latin: tàljige (sh) pl

• Spanish: telega f
• Swedish: telega (sv) c
• Tajik: ароба (tg) (aroba)
• Tatar: арба (tt) (arba)
• Ukrainian: теле́га f (teléha), віз (uk) m (viz)
• Uzbek: telega (uz), arava (uz)
• Vietnamese: telega
• Yakut: тэлиэгэ (teliege)

Anagrams

• Legate, Teagle, eaglet, gelate, legate, teagle

Old Polish

Alternative forms

• talaga, talega, telaga, teliga

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Ruthenian телѣга (telěha). First attested in 1480.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /tɛlʲɛɡa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /tɛlʲɛɡa/

Noun

telega f

1. telega (simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs)
   • 1868 [1480], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎^[1], volume XVIII (quotation in Old Polish; overall work in Polish, Latin, and Old Polish), page 200:

     Quia ipse non dedit magnum currum salis al. telega

     [Quia ipse non dedit magnum currum salis al. telega]

Descendants

• Polish: telega

References

• Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “telega, talaga, talega, telaga, teliga”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Alternative forms

• teliga (“cart on two wheels”) (Near Masovian, Radzyń Podlaski County)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Ruthenian телѣга (telěha)bor.

Old Polish telega

Polish telega

Inherited from Old Polish telega.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛ.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡa
• Syllabification: te‧le‧ga

Noun

telega f (diminutive teleżka)

1. (historical) telega (simple four-wheeled Russian cart without springs)
   • 1876, Konstanty Wolicki, Wspomnienia z czasów pobytu w cytadeli warszawskiej i na Syberyi. (Erinnerungen aus den Zeiten des Aufenthaltes in der Warschauer Cittadelle und in Sibirien.), page 57:

     Dwie telegi tego rodzaju zastaliśmy przed więzieniem w wewnętrznym jego dziedzińcu […]

     We found two telegas of this kind in front of the prison in its inner courtyard […]

Declension

Declension of telega

	singular	plural
nominative	telega	telegi
genitive	telegi	teleg
dative	teledze	telegom
accusative	telegę	telegi
instrumental	telegą	telegami
locative	teledze	telegach
vocative	telego	telegi

Further reading

• “telega”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “telega”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• telega in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Marek Kunicki-Goldfinger (16.09.2021), “TELEGA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “telega”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /teˈlɛ.ɡɐ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈlɛ.ɡɐ/ [tɨˈlɛ.ɣɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈlɛ.ɡɐ/ [tɨˈlɛ.ɣɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈlɛ.ɡɐ/

Noun

telega f (plural telegas)

1. telega (a type of simple four-wheeled cart used in Russia)

Further reading

• “telega”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “telega”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Swedish

Alternative forms

• teljega

Etymology

From Russian теле́га (teléga), used in Swedish since 1877.

Noun

telega c

1. a telega, a Russian 4-wheeled cart

Declension

Declension of telega

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	telega	telegas
	definite	telegan	telegans
plural	indefinite	telegor	telegors
	definite	telegorna	telegornas

References

• “telega”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Teljega in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1919)