tellan

Meaning

1. to count, calculate

   Tealdest þū eall þā sċēap be handa?

   Did you count all the sheep by hand?

2. to tell, narrate, recount

3. to regard, consider

   c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 15:15

   I don't consider you servants. I consider you friends.

4. to attribute

   Þæt fyr wearð þa acwenced þæt þær an col ne gleow and þæt folc tealde þæt to drycræfte...

   Then the fire became quenched, so that not one coal glowed there, and the people attributed it to witchcraft,...

   late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Agnes, Virgin"

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