spelt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛlt/
• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

See spell

Alternative forms

• spelled (US, Canada)

Verb

spelt

1. (chiefly UK) Simple past tense and past participle of spell.
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v 1

     Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt / backward with the horn on his head?

Usage notes

The form spelt may predominate over spelled in parts of North America with heavier English settlement since the 19th century. One such place is Utah.

Etymology 2

From Middle English, 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 *spiltō, *spiltaz (“spelt”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelbh-, *(s)pelbh-t- (“spelt, spelt meal”). Cognate with Old High German spelza (“spelt”), Modern German Spelz (“wheat-like cereal”), Dutch spelt (“spelt”).

Noun

spelt (uncountable)

1. A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta.

See also

• Spelt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• emmer
• farro

Translations

a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta

• Armenian: հաճար (hačar)
• Basque: espelta
• Breton: yell (br)
• Catalan: espelta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斯卑爾脫小麥, 斯卑尔脱小麦 (sībēi'ěrtuōxiǎomài)

• Czech: špalda (cs) f
• Danish: spelt
• Dutch: spelt (nl)
• Esperanto: spelto
• Estonian: speltanisu
• Finnish: spelttivehnä, speltti
• French: épeautre (fr) m
• German: Dinkel (de) m
• Hebrew: כוסמין
• Hungarian: tönkölybúza

• Icelandic: spelt
• Italian: spelta f
• Luxembourgish: Spelz
• Norwegian: spelt
• Polish: pszenica orkisz f
• Portuguese: espelta f
• Romanian: alac (ro) n
• Russian: полба (ru) f (pólba)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прапшеница f, пир

  Roman: prapšenica f, pir

• Slovene: pira f
• Spanish: espelta f, escanda f
• Swedish: dinkel, spelt (sv)
• Walloon: speate

Etymology 3

From Middle High German spalden, or Old Norse spald.

Noun

spelt (plural spelts)

1. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
2. (metalworking) spelter

Verb

spelt (third-person singular simple present spelts, present participle spelting, simple past and past participle spelted)

1. (obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• pelts, slept

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Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German spelte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɛlt/, [sb̥ɛlˀd̥]

Noun

spelt c (singular definite spelten, not used in plural form)

1. spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta)

External links

• Spelt on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

spelt n (uncountable)

1. spelt (grain)

Verb

spelt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of spellen
2. plural imperative of spellen