spelt
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspɛlt/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛlt
Etymology 1
From spell + -t. See spell.
Alternative forms
- spelled
Verb
spelt
- (chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of spell
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt / backward with the horn on his head?
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Etymology 2
From Middle English spelt, from Old English spelt (“spelt, corn”), from Old Saxon spelta (“spelt”); or from Late Latin spelta (“spelt”), from Frankish *spelta (“spelt”); all from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz (“spelt”).
Noun
spelt (usually uncountable, plural spelts)
- A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
- Synonym: dinkel wheat
- Hypernym: hulled wheat
- Coordinate terms: emmer, einkorn wheat
Descendants
- → Irish: speilt
- → Welsh: sbelt
Translations
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See also
- Appendix:Grains
Etymology 3
From Old Norse spald.
Noun
spelt (plural spelts)
- (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
- (metalworking) Spelter.
Verb
spelt (third-person singular simple present spelts, present participle spelting, simple past and past participle spelted)
- (obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.
- 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:
- spelted Beans
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References
- spelt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
References
spelt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Pelts, pelts, slept
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German spelte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spɛlt/, [sb̥ɛlˀd̥]
Noun
spelt c (singular definite spelten, not used in plural form)
- spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta)
Further reading
spelt on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spɛlt/
audio (file) - Hyphenation: spelt
- Rhymes: -ɛlt
- Homophone: speld
Noun
spelt f (uncountable)
- spelt (grain)
Verb
spelt
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of spellen
- (archaic) plural imperative of spellen
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
spelt
- indefinite singular past participle of spela
West Frisian
Alternative forms
- spjelt
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spɛlt/
Noun
spelt ? (plural [please provide])
- spelt
References
- “spelt”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011