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spelt

See also: Spelt

English

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Etymology 1

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From spell +‎ -t. See spell.

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spelt

  1. (chiefly British) simple past 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, [Act V, scene i]:
      Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt / backward with the horn on his head?

Etymology 2

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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”).

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spelt (usually uncountable, plural spelts)

  2. 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
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  • → Irish: speilt
  • → Welsh: sbelt
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Etymology 3

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From Old Norse spald.

Noun

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spelt (plural spelts)

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

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

  1. (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. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
      spelted Beans

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German spelte.

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  • IPA(key): /spɛlt/, [sb̥ɛlˀd̥]

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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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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch spelte, from Old Dutch *spelta, either from Frankish *spelta or Latin spelta, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz.

Noun

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spelt f (uncountable)

  1. spelt (grain)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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spelt

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Participle

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spelt

  1. past participle of spela

West Frisian

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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spelt ? (plural [please provide])

  1. spelt

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  • “spelt”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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