# spelt
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspɛlt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛlt

### Etymology 1

From spell +‎ -t. See spell.

#### Alternative forms

* spelled

#### Verb

spelt
* (chiefly British) simple past 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?

### 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)
* 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

##### Descendants

* → Irish: speilt
* → Welsh: sbelt

##### See also

* Appendix:Grains

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse spald.

#### Noun

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

#### Verb

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. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:spelted Beans

### References

* “spelt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### References

* spelt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Pelts, pelts, slept

## Danish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German spelte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spɛlt/, [sb̥ɛlˀd̥]

### Noun

spelt c (singular definite spelten, not used in plural form)
* spelt (a type of wheat, Triticum spelta)

### Further reading

* spelt on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spɛlt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: spelt
* Rhymes: -ɛlt
* Homophone: speld

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spelte, from Old Dutch *spelta, either from Frankish *spelta or Latin spelta, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz.

#### Noun

spelt f (uncountable)
* spelt (grain)

##### Derived terms

* speltbrood
* speltmeel

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

spelt
* inflection of spellen:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Participle

spelt
* past participle of spela

## 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: /spɛlt/

### Noun

spelt ? (plural [please provide])
* spelt

### References

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