spelt

EnglishEdit

From spell +‎ -t. See spell.

spelt

(chiefly Britain) simple past tense 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?

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”).

spelt (usually uncountable, plural spelts)

a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta

Armenian: հաճար (hy) (hačar)
Basque: espelta
Breton: yell (br) m
Bulgarian: шпелта f (špelta)
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) m
Erzya: виш (viš)
Esperanto: spelto (eo)
Estonian: speltanisu
Finnish: spelttivehnä (fi), speltti (fi)
French: épeautre (fr) m
Galician: espelta (gl) f, melga f
German: Dinkel (de) m, Spelz (de) m
Greek: όλυρα (el) f (ólyra)
Ancient: ὄλυρα f (ólura)
Hebrew: כוסמין‎ (he)
Hungarian: tönkölybúza (hu)
Icelandic: spelt n, speldi n
Irish: speilt f
Italian: spelta (it) f
Latin: fār n, ador n
Luxembourgish: Spelz m
Macedonian: кру́пник m (krúpnik), пи́ра f (píra)
Norwegian: spelt
Persian: کندروس‎ (kondorus), جوگندم‎ (jowgandom), گندم آلمانی‎ (gandom-e âlmâni)
Polish: orkisz (pl) m, szpelc m
Portuguese: espelta (pt) f
Romanian: alac (ro) n
Russian: по́лба (ru) f (pólba)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: прапшеница f, пир

Roman: prapšenica f, pir (sh)
Slovene: pira (sl) f
Spanish: espelta f, escanda (es) f
Swedish: dinkel (sv), spelt (sv)
Ukrainian: спельта f (spelʹta)
Walloon: speate (wa) f
Welsh: sbelt m
Zazaki: xeleyo derg

spelt (plural spelts)

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

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

(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. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, →OCLC:
  spelted Beans