English
tellee
From tell + -ee.
Formed from tell + -ee
Proto-Germanic *talō ‘narration, speech; number, calculation’
Proto-Germanic *taljaną ‘to enumerate, count; to recount, tell’
Proto-West Germanic *talljan ‘to count; to recount, tell’
Old English tellan ‘to count, calculate; to tell, narrate’
Middle English tellen ‘to count, tell’
English tell
Today it means
noun One who is told something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / tellee