felt
English
/fɛlt/
noun
Definitions
- A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.
- A hat made of felt.
- (obsolete) A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English felt inherited from Old English felt inherited from *felt (felt) derived from Proto-Indo-European *pilto.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pilto
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antifelt English
- deep English
- deepfelt English
- feltest English
- feltlike English
- feltmaker English
- feltness English
- feltwork English
- feltwort English
- felty English
- heart English
- heartfelt English
- heartfeltly English
- heartfeltness English
- home English
- homefelt English
- infelt English
- maker English
- needle English
- needlefelt English
- pileus English
- refelt English
- underfelt English
- unfelt English
- unheartfelt English
- work English
- wort English
- feltrum Latin
- filtrum Latin
- pilleus Latin
- Filz German
- Filzhut German
- Filzlaus German
- filzig German
- verfilzen German
- filc Hungarian
- biervilt Dutch, Flemish
- vilt Dutch, Flemish
- viltstift Dutch, Flemish
- feutre French
- feutrer French
- feutrine French
- felpa Spanish, Castilian
- πίλινος Ancient Greek
- πῖλος Ancient Greek
- *peld- Proto-Indo-European
- *pilos Proto-Indo-European
- *pilto Proto-Indo-European
- フェルト Japanese
- filc Polish
- felt Old English
- feltwurma Old English
- feltwyrt Old English
- felt Middle English
- felten Middle English
- *pilfilt Old French
- feltre Old French
- filc Serbo-Croatian
- feltro Galician
- πίλος Greek (modern)
- vilt Middle Dutch
- filz Old High German
- fötr Turkish
- vilz Middle High German
- Feuter Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- plis Albanian
- *felt gmw-pro
- *filt Old Dutch
- *filtir Frankish
- *plitś(i)- Proto-Albanian
- fetr Crimean Tatar