spelt
English
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Etymology 1
See spell.
Alternative forms
Verb
spelt
- (chiefly British) simple past 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
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 *spiltō, *spiltaz (“spelt”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelbʰ-, *(s)pelbʰ-t- (“spelt, spelt meal”). Cognate with German Spelz and Dutch 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.
Synonyms
- (grain): dinkel wheat
Hypernyms
- (grain): hulled wheat
Coordinate terms
- (grain): emmer (farro), einkorn wheat
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Etymology 3
From Middle High German spalden, or 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “spelt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German spelte.
Pronunciation
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
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Noun
spelt f (uncountable)
- spelt (grain)
Verb
spelt
- (deprecated template usage) second- and third-person singular present indicative of spellen
- (deprecated template usage) (archaic) plural imperative of spellen
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
spelt
- (deprecated template usage) indefinite singular past participle of spela
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