English Online Dictionary. What means told? What does told mean?
English
Alternative forms
- tol'
Etymology
From Middle English tolde, talde (first and third person singular preterite), from Old English tealde (first and third person singular preterite), from Proto-Germanic *talid-, preterite stem of Proto-Germanic *taljaną (“to count; tell”), equivalent to tell + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /təʊld/, [ˈtʰɔʊ(ɫ)d], [ˈtʰɒʊ(ɫ)d]
- (General American) enPR: tōld, IPA(key): /toʊld/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /tɐʉld/, [tʰɒʊ(ɫ)d]
- Homophone: tolled
- Rhymes: -əʊld
Verb
told
- simple past and past participle of tell
Anagrams
- dolt
Danish
Etymology
From Medieval Latin toloneum, an alteration of Latin telōneum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔl/, [tˢʌlˀ]
- Homophone: tolv
Noun
told c (singular definite tolden, not used in plural form)
- duty, tariff (tax placed on imports or exports)
Declension
Derived terms
- tolder
Further reading
- “told” in Den Danske Ordbog
- told on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtold]
- Homophone: toldd
- Rhymes: -old
Etymology 1
Possibly from the verb tol (“to push”) + -d (frequentative suffix).
Verb
told
- (transitive) to add, to splice
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Etymology 2
tol (“to push”) + -d (personal suffix)
Alternative forms
- toljad
Verb
told
- second-person singular subjunctive present definite of tol
References
Further reading
- told in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Norwegian Nynorsk
Participle
told (neuter told or tolt, definite singular and plural tolde)
- (non-standard since 2012) past participle of tole
Verb
told
- (non-standard since 2012) supine of tole
Yola
Verb
told
- Alternative form of tolth
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