spelt

See also: Spelt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛlt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

From spell +‎ -t. See spell.

Alternative forms

• spelled

Verb

spelt

1. (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 606515358, [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

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”).

Noun

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

Translations

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
• Norwegian: spelt
• Persian: کندروس‎ (kondorus), جوگندم‎ (jowgandom), گندم آلمانی‎ (gandom-e ālmānī)
• 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

Descendants

• → Irish: speilt
• → Welsh: sbelt

See also

• Appendix:Grains

Etymology 3

From Old Norse spald.

Noun

spelt (plural spelts)

1. (dialect, 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.
   • 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 13320837:

     spelted Beans

References

• spelt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

References

• spelt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pelts, pelts, slept

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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)

Further reading

• spelt on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɛlt/

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• Hyphenation: spelt
• Rhymes: -ɛlt
• Homophone: speld

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

spelt

1. indefinite singular past participle of spela and spele

West Frisian

Alternative forms

• spjelt

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spɛlt/

Noun

spelt ? (plural [please provide])

1. spelt

References

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