spelt
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[edit] Etymology 1
See spell
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- spelled (US, Canadian)
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spelt
- (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?
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v 1
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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.
[edit] Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old English spelt (“spelt, corn”), from Old Saxon spelta (“spelt”); or from Late Latin spelta (“spelt”), of Germanic origin, 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”).
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spelt (uncountable)
- A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta.
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[edit] Etymology 3
From Middle High German spalden, or Old Norse spald.
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spelt (plural spelts)
- (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle Low German spelte.
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- IPA: /spɛlt/, [sb̥ɛlˀd̥]
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spelt c. (singular definite spelten, not used in plural form)
- spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta)
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Spelt on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
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spelt n. (uncountable)
- Kind of cereal
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spelt
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of spellen.
- plural imperative of spellen.
- British English
- English simple past forms
- English past participles
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Old Saxon
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Germanic languages
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- English terms derived from Middle High German
- English terms derived from Old Norse
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- Northern England English
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- Danish terms derived from Middle Low German
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- Dutch uncountable nouns
- Dutch verb forms
- Dutch verb imperative forms
