Teld vs Veld - What's the difference?
teld | veld |
(obsolete) To lodge in a tent.
(obsolete) To set up (a tent); pitch a tent; (in general) to set up.
The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa.
* 1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 79:
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 11:
* {{quote-news, 2007, January 14, Caroline Elkins, A Life Exposed, New York Times
, passage=For Holmes, Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. }}
As nouns the difference between teld and veld
is that teld is a tent while veld is the open pasture land or grassland of South Africa.As a verb teld
is to lodge in a tent.teld
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . See also (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) . See above.Verb
(en verb)veld
English
(wikipedia veld)Alternative forms
* veldtNoun
(en noun)- Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.
- From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.
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