spelt

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɛlt/
• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1Edit

See spell.

Alternative formsEdit

• spelled (US)

VerbEdit

spelt

1. (chiefly Britain) simple past tense 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?

Usage notesEdit

The form spelt may predominate over spelled in parts of North America with heavier English settlement since the 19th century. One such place is New England and much of Canada, particularly in Atlantic Canada.

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English, 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 Old High German spelza ‎(“spelt”), Modern German Spelz ‎(“wheat-like cereal”), Dutch spelt ‎(“spelt”).

NounEdit

spelt ‎(uncountable)

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

SynonymsEdit

• (grain): dinkel wheat, hulled wheat

See alsoEdit

• Spelt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• emmer
• farro

TranslationsEdit

a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta

• Armenian: հաճար (hy) ‎(hačar)
• Basque: espelta
• Breton: yell (br)
• 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)
• Erzya: виш ‎(viš)
• Esperanto: spelto
• Estonian: speltanisu
• Finnish: spelttivehnä, speltti
• French: épeautre (fr) m
• German: Dinkel (de) m
• Greek: όλυρα f ‎(ólyra)
• Hebrew: כוסמין
• Hungarian: tönkölybúza

• Icelandic: spelt n, speldi n
• Italian: spelta f
• Luxembourgish: Spelz
• Norwegian: spelt
• Polish: pszenica orkisz f
• 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 f
• Spanish: espelta f, escanda (es) f
• Swedish: dinkel, spelt (sv)
• Walloon: speate (wa) f

Etymology 3Edit

From Middle High German spalden, or Old Norse spald.

NounEdit

spelt ‎(plural spelts)

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

VerbEdit

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

1. (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.

AnagramsEdit

• pelts, slept

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Low German spelte.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /spɛlt/, [sb̥ɛlˀd̥]

NounEdit

spelt c (singular definite spelten, not used in plural form)

1. spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta)}

External linksEdit

• Spelt on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

spelt n ‎(uncountable)

1. spelt (grain)

VerbEdit

spelt

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

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

spelt

1. indefinite singular past participle of spela and spele