Where does “spelt” come from?

Spelt comes from Middle English spelte, from Old English spelt, cognate with Old High German spelz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *spel-, meaning to split or crack.

spelt (English): simple past tense and past participle of spell; A...

Definitions

  1. simple past tense and past participle of spell; A...

Ancestry of “spelt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishspelt—
2Old Englishspeltspelt, corn
3Old Saxonspeltaspelt
4Proto-Germanicspiltazspelt

Words derived from “spelt”

Every word from Proto-Germanic spiltaz →Every word from Old Saxon spelta →Every word from Old English spelt →