spelt

Meanings

Verb

• Past of spell
• To split; to break; to spalt.

Noun

• A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
• A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
• Spelter.

Related

Similar words

• dinkel wheat

Broader meaning words

• hulled wheat

Origin

• From spell + -t. See spell.
• From Middle English spelt, from Old English spelt ("spelt, corn"), from Old Saxon spelta; or from Late Latin spelta ("spelt"), from Frankish *spelta; all from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz.
• From Middle High German spalden, or Old Norse spald.