teli

• IPA^(key): /ˈteli/, [ˈt̪e̞li]
• Rhymes: -eli
• Syllabification^(key): te‧li
• Hyphenation^(key): te‧li

tela +‎ -i

teli

1. (rail transport, road transport, aviation) bogie, (US, rail transport) truck
   • 2011 February 24, “Junaliikenne oli poikki Kokkolan ja Seinäjoen välillä”, in Yle‎^[2], published 6 June 2012, retrieved 11 March 2023:

     Liikenne pysähtyi viiden jälkeen aamulla, kun Pietarsaareen matkalla olleen tavarajunan veturin toinen teli putosi vaihteessa pois kiskoilta.

     Traffic ground to a halt some time after five in the morning when one of the bogies fell off the tracks from the locomotive of a cargo train on its way to Pietarsaari.

Borrowed from Old Norse þeli (“ground freeze”) from Proto-Germanic *þelą. (compare dialectal Norwegian tele (“frozen earth”)). Cognates include synonymous Estonian teli (dialectal), Ingrian teli and Karelian jeäteli, all probably borrowed from Finnish.^[1] Doublet of tela.

teli

1. floe, ice raft

   Synonyms: jäälautta, jääteli

   • 2017 March 28, Risto Sulkava, “Sulkavan havaintovihko: Jään voima”, in Suomen luonto‎^[3], retrieved 11 March 2023:

     Teli tempaisi mukaansa puolimetrisiä kiviä ja nosti ne parin metrin korkeuteen, jäätelin kattoon. Syntyi jäinen katedraali.

     The floe pulled half-metre-wide rocks with it and lifted them a couple metres off the ground, to the ceiling of the block of ice. An icy cathedral was born.

2. (dialectal) boulder of ice

   Synonyms: jäälohkare, jääteli

3. (dialectal) frozen block of earth

   Synonym: jääteli

• “teli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 January 2024

• elit

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛli]

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• Hyphenation: te‧li
• Rhymes: -li

teli (not comparable)

1. synonym of tele (“full”), normally with explicit or implied van

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with teli-, the alternative form of tele-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see tele-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.

teli (comparative telibb, superlative legtelibb)

1. synonym of tele (“full”)

   A légpárnás hajóm teli van angolnával. ― My hovercraft is full of eels.

teli (uncountable)

1. only used in telibe, chiefly with the verbs kap, megy, and talál: in the bull’s eye, exactly, spot-on
2. (rare) only used in telije: the fullness or completeness of something

   Synonyms: telje, teljessége

• teli , partly redirecting to tele in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Borrowed from Finnish teli.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈteli/, [ˈte̞lʲiˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈteli/, [ˈte̞lʲiˑ]
• Rhymes: -eli
• Hyphenation: te‧li

teli

1. (small) floe

Declension of teli (type 5/vahti, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	teli	telit
genitive	telin	telliin, telilöin
partitive	telliä	telijä, telilöjä
illative	tellii	tellii, telilöihe
inessive	telis	teliis, telilöis
elative	telist	teliist, telilöist
allative	telille	teliille, telilöille
adessive	telil	teliil, telilöil
ablative	telilt	teliilt, telilöilt
translative	teliks	teliiks, telilöiks
essive	telinnä, telliin	teliinnä, telilöinnä, telliin, telilöin
exessive1)	telint	teliint, telilöint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• jääteli

• lontti

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 580

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.li/
• Rhymes: -eli
• Hyphenation: té‧li

teli m pl

1. plural of telo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.li/
• Rhymes: -ɛli
• Hyphenation: tè‧li

teli m pl

1. plural of telo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.li/
• Rhymes: -eli
• Hyphenation: té‧li

teli

1. inflection of telare:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular imperative

• -lite, lite

tēlī

1. genitive singular of tēlum

teli f

1. accusative/instrumental singular of tele

teli

1. third-person present subjunctive of telja

• tèrli

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تللی (telli) (Turkish telli (“wired, stringed, funicular”)).

• IPA^(key): /těli/
• Hyphenation: te‧li

tèli (Cyrillic spelling тѐли) (indeclinable)

1. (regional) embroidered, ornamented, interwoven with golden or silver wire

From English telly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛli/

teli m (plural telïau)

1. (colloquial) telly, TV

   Synonym: teledu

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “teli”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From talu (“to pay”) +‎ -i.

• tali (colloquial)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛli/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈteːli/, /ˈtɛli/

teli

1. (literary) second-person singular present/future of talu