spelt

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon. uncountable,usually
  2. A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter. Northern-England,Scotland,dialectal
  3. Spelter.
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of spell UK,form-of,participle,past
    — Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt / backward with the horn on his head?
  2. To grind or crush (grain or pulses). obsolete,transitive
    — spelted Beans
形容词 adj.
  1. Of dried beans: pounded, crushed, or split. not-comparable,obsolete,rare
    — [H]alfe an houre after give him a pottell of Oates and a pinte of ſpelt Beanes, then a ſmall bottel of Hay: […]

词形变化

spelled alternative spelts plural spelts plural spelts present,singular,third-person spelting participle,present spelted participle,past spelted past

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 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”).
词源 3
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.
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