spittle

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• /ˈspɪ.t(ə)l/
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• rhymes with -ɪtəl
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• CMU ARPABET: S P IH1 T AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Two main origins: * From Middle English spitel (“lodging house”), an occupational surname for someone who was employed at a lodging house. * Americanized spelling of German Spittel, a metonymic occupational surname for someone who worked in an infirmary, from Middle High German spital (“hospital”).

Alteration of dialectal spattle (by association with spit (noun)), from Old English spātl, which is related to spǣtan (whence spit (verb)).

Representing a frequentative form of spit (“a spade's depth”), equivalent to spit + -le.

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aghwan: 𐕉𐕒𐕡𐕢𐔴𐕚𐕒𐕡𐕎 (ćupesun) — spit, usually frothy
• Bulgarian: плюнка (pljunka) — spit, usually frothy
• Bulgarian: храчка (hračka) — spit, usually frothy
• Catalan: escopinada — spit, usually frothy
• Chinese Mandarin: 吐沫 (tùmo) — spit, usually frothy
• Czech: slina — spit, usually frothy
• Czech: plivanec — spit, usually frothy
• French: crachat — spit, usually frothy
• French: postillon — spit, usually frothy
• Galician: cuspidela — spit, usually frothy
• Galician: cuspidura — spit, usually frothy
• Galician: cuspiñada — spit, usually frothy
• Galician: cuspiñazo — spit, usually frothy
• Galician: lapo — spit, usually frothy
• German: Spucke — spit, usually frothy
• Greek: ροχάλα (rochála) — spit, usually frothy
• Ancient Greek: σίαλον (síalon) — spit, usually frothy
• Hungarian: köpet — spit, usually frothy
• Hungarian: nyál — spit, usually frothy
• Irish: seile — spit, usually frothy
• Italian: sputo — spit, usually frothy
• Japanese: 唾 — spit, usually frothy
• Javanese: idu — spit, usually frothy
• Javanese: kecoh — spit, usually frothy
• Korean: 침 (chim) — spit, usually frothy
• Latvian: spļāviens — spit, usually frothy
• Latvian: spļaudekļi — spit, usually frothy
• Latvian: siekalas — spit, usually frothy
• Macedonian: ’рканица (’rkanica) — spit, usually frothy
• Persian: تف (tof) — spit, usually frothy
• Persian: بفچ (bafč) — spit, usually frothy
• Plautdietsch: Kjwiel — spit, usually frothy
• Plautdietsch: Spie — spit, usually frothy
• Plautdietsch: Kwoakjs — spit, usually frothy
• Portuguese: cuspe — spit, usually frothy
• Romanian: scuipat — spit, usually frothy
• Russian: слюна́ (sljuná) — spit, usually frothy
• Russian: плево́к (plevók) — spit, usually frothy
• Scottish Gaelic: seile — spit, usually frothy
• Scottish Gaelic: ronn — spit, usually frothy
• Sicilian: sputu — spit, usually frothy
• Sicilian: sputazza — spit, usually frothy
• Sicilian: sputazzata — spit, usually frothy
• Spanish: escupida — spit, usually frothy
• Spanish: escupitajo — spit, usually frothy
• Spanish: lapo — spit, usually frothy
• Spanish: espumajo — spit, usually frothy
• Spanish: espumarajo — spit, usually frothy
• Sylheti: ꠍꠦꠙ (séfo) — spit, usually frothy
• Telugu: లాలాజలము (lālājalamu) — spit, usually frothy
• Tocharian B: pitke — spit, usually frothy
• Ottoman Turkish: توكوروك (tükürük) — spit, usually frothy
• Ukrainian: слина (slyna) — spit, usually frothy
• Walloon: raetchon — spit, usually frothy
• Walloon: raetchote — spit, usually frothy
• Woiwurrung: kâ-gooll — spit, usually frothy