tella

• talla

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tella (uncountable)

1. A traditional beer from Ethiopia and Eritrea, brewed from various grains.

• telha (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese tella, from Vulgar Latin *tegla, from Latin tēgula. Cognate with Portuguese telha and Spanish teja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteʎa̝/

tella f (plural tellas)

1. roof tile

• tellado
• tellar
• telleira

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “tella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tella”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tella”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tella”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

tella

1. inflection of tellar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

tella

1. split infinitive of telle (non-standard since 2005)