FELT - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Verb
mat together and make felt-like
Example: felt the wool
Categories: Entangle, Tangle, Mat, Snarl
Meaning 2
Part of speech: Verb
cover with felt
Example: felt a cap
Categories: Cover
Meaning 3
Part of speech: Verb
change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
Example: The fabric felted up after several washes
Categories: Change
Synonyms
Feel, Felt up, Palpate, Matte, Matte up
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "felt" comes from Old English fēled. It started in Proto-Indo-European *pilto. Then it appeared in Proto-West Germanic *felt. Later, people used it in Old English felt. After that, it was Middle English felt. Many other languages have similar words:.
- Dutch: vilt
- German: Filz
- Danish: filt
- French: feutre
- Latin: pilleus
- Old Church Slavonic: плъсть
- Albanian: plis
🔗 Related Words
feel – A related word in the same word family.
ed – A related word in the same word family.
🧩 Fun Fact
Each language in this chain added phonetic changes that transformed the original sound.