felt

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English

Alternative forms

• felte (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛlt/
• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), 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.
2. A hat made of felt.
3. A felt-tip pen.
4. (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

Derived terms

Translations

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

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

Translations

Etymology 2

From 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.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• flet, Left, TEFL, FLET, left

Danish

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German velt, from Old Saxon feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu.

Gender changed by influence from mark.

Noun

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

1. field (the practical part of something)
2. (e.g., sciences, military) field; an outlying area, as opposed to e.g. the lab, office or barracks

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From German Feld, from Old High German feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu.

Noun

felt n (singular definite feltet, plural indefinite felter)

1. field
2. sphere, province
3. square

Inflection

Derived terms

References

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• felte, feltte, feelte

Etymology

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

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.

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

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]

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German Feld.

Noun

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

1. field

Derived terms

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.

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

• feld
• ueld

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz.

Noun

felt n

1. field

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: velt
  • Dutch: veld
    • Afrikaans: veld
      • → English: veld
    • Negerhollands: veld
    • → Caribbean Javanese: fèlt

Further reading

• “felt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *felt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /felt/, [feɫt]

Noun

felt m

1. felt

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Descendants

• Middle English: felt, felte, feltte, feelte
  • English: felt
  • Scots: felt

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English felde, from Old English fylde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛɫt/

Verb

felt

1. simple past of vill

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 40