told

• tol'

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təʊld/, [ˈtʰɔʊ(ɫ)d], [ˈtʰɒʊ(ɫ)d]
• (General American) enPR: tōld, IPA^(key): /toʊld/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /tɐʉld/, [tʰɒʊ(ɫ)d]
• Homophone: tolled
• Rhymes: -əʊld

told

1. simple past and past participle of tell

   A tale is but half told, if only one person tells it.

• dolt

• IPA^(key): /tɔl/, [tˢʌlˀ]
• Homophone: tolv

told c (singular definite tolden, not used in plural form)

1. duty, tariff (tax placed on imports or exports)

• tolder

• “told” in Den Danske Ordbog
• told on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• IPA^(key): [ˈtold]
• Homophone: toldd
• Rhymes: -old

Possibly from the verb tol (“to push”) +‎ -d (frequentative suffix).[1]

told

1. (transitive) to add, to splice

(With verbal prefixes):

tol (“to push”) +‎ -d (personal suffix)

• toljad

told

1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of tol

• 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

told (neuter told or tolt, definite singular and plural tolde)

1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of tole

told

1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of tole

told

1. Alternative form of tolth
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Fho told thee?

     Who told thee?

• 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