tealtrian

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *taltrōn, from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, a frequentative of *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”). Equivalent to tealt +‎ -rian. Cognate with Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), Norwegian dialectal totra (“to quiver, shake”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Related to tilt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtæ͜ɑl.tri.ɑn/, [ˈtæ͜ɑɫ.tri.ɑn] === Verb === tealtrian to shake, stagger, be unsteady, be uncertain, vacillate ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== tealt (“unsteady”) tealtian ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: talteren (as talterande), toteren English: tolter, totter === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “tealtrian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.