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English

felt

/ˈfɛlt/
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.

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    Origin

    Etymology 1

    From Middle English felt, from Old English felt, from Proto-West Germanic *felt (compare Dutch vilt, German Filz, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish filt, French feutre), from Proto-Indo-European *pilto, *pilso 'felt' (compare Latin pilleus (“felt”, adjective), Old Church Slavonic плъсть (plŭstĭ), Albanian plis, Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos)), from *pel- 'to beat'. More at anvil.

    Etymology 2

    From Old English fēled, corresponding to feel + -ed.

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    Lineage

    • rootProto-Indo-European*pel- (beat)
    • inheritedMiddle Englishfelt
      • inheritedOld Englishfelt
        • inheritedProto-West Germanic*felt “felt”
          • derivedProto-Germanic*fellą “skin, hide”
            • derivedProto-Indo-European*pel- “skin, animal hide”
            • derivedFrankish*molfell “soft garment made of hide”
    • derivedOld Englishfēled
    • partEnglishfeel “To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishfelen “to come at (one's enemies), advance”
        • inheritedOld Englishfēlan
        • derivedOld Norsefela “to hide”
        • inheritedOld Englishfēolan “to cleave, enter, penetrate”
    • suffixEnglish-ed “Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any pa…”
      • inheritedMiddle English-ed
        • inheritedOld English-ed
        • derivedLatincōnfūsus
        • inheritedOld English-od
      • inheritedMiddle English-ede
        • inheritedOld English-ode

    Related: Dutch vilt, German Filz, da,nb,nn,sv filt, French feutre, Latin pilleus, Old Church Slavonic плъсть, Albanian plis

    Meanings

    noun
    1. 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.
    2. A hat made of felt.
    3. A felt-tip pen.
    4. A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.
    verb
    1. To make into felt or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together.
    2. To cover with, or as if with, felt.
    3. To cause (a player) to lose all their chips.
    4. To thoroughly defeat or humiliate (someone).
    adj
    1. That has been experienced or perceived.

    Sources

    • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
    • Wiktionary: felt