spelt

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The noun is from Middle English spelt, from Old English spelt, connected with the verb. Compare speld and German Spelze (“husk”). The adjective is from Middle English spelt, probably a contraction of spelked, past participle of spelken (“to bruise (beans)”), itself of obscure origin. Compare Scots spilkings (“split peas”), the later verb, and perhaps also splet. The verb is probably from the adjective. Compare earlier spald, speld.

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”).

From Late Middle English spelde (past tense) and spelled, ispeled, ispelled (past participles). The past tense reflects an early Middle English syncopation of spellede, while the past participle remained largely disyllabic until the general Early Modern English reduction of the -ed suffix. In both cases, once the medial vowel was lost, the final alveolar stop underwent phonetic devoicing after the sonorant /l/, resulting in the modern -t spelling. Compare dwelt, felt, and smelt. By surface analysis, spell + -t.

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: tepë — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Armenian: հաճար (hačar) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Azerbaijani: pərinc — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Bashkir: борай (boray) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Basque: espelta — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Belarusian: полба (pólba) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Breton: yell — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Bulgarian: шпелта (špelta) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Catalan: espelta — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Chinese Mandarin: 斯卑爾脫小麥 /斯卑尔脱小麦 (sībēi'ěrtuōxiǎomài) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Chuvash: пӑри (pări) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Czech: špalda — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Danish: spelt — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Dutch: spelt — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Erzya: виш (viš) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Esperanto: spelto — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Estonian: speltanisu — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Finnish: spelttivehnä — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Finnish: speltti — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• French: épeautre — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Galician: espelta — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Galician: melga — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• German: Dinkel — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• German: Spelz — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Greek: όλυρα (ólyra) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Ancient Greek: ὄλυρα (ólura) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Hebrew: כוסמין — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Hungarian: tönkölybúza — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Icelandic: spelt — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Icelandic: speldi — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Irish: speilt — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Italian: spelta — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Japanese: スペルトコムギ — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Kumyk: къарабудай (qarabuday) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Kumyk: полба (polba) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Latin: spelta — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Luxembourgish: Spelz — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Macedonian: кру́пник (krúpnik) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Macedonian: пи́ра (píra) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Eastern Mari: висте (viste) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Norwegian: spelt — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Persian: کندروس (kondorus) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Persian: جوگندم (jowgandom) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Persian: گندم آلمانی (gandom-e âlmâni) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Polish: orkisz — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Polish: szpelc — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Portuguese: espelta — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Romanian: alac — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Russian: по́лба (pólba) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Serbo-Croatian: прапшеница — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Serbo-Croatian: пир — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Serbo-Croatian: prapšenica — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Serbo-Croatian: pir — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Slovene: pira — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Spanish: espelta — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Spanish: escanda — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Swedish: dinkel — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Swedish: spelt — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Tatar: борай (boray) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Turkish: kavuzlu buğday — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Ukrainian: спельта (spelʹta) — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Walloon: speate — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Welsh: sbelt — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta
• Zazaki: xeleyo derg — a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta