spelt

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈspɛlt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

See spell.

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Verb

spelt

  1. (chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of spell

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)

  1. A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
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Etymology 3

From Middle High German spalden, or Old Norse spald.

Noun

spelt (plural spelts)

  1. (dialectal, 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spelt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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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)

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Dutch

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Noun

spelt f (uncountable)

  1. spelt (grain)

Verb

spelt

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

spelt

  1. indefinite singular past participle of spela and spele
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