Where does “spilt” come from?
Spilt is the past tense and past participle of English spill, formed with the regular English past tense suffix deriving through Middle English and Latin -tus from Proto-Indo-European -iskos.
spilt (English): That has been spilt; simple past tense and past...
Definitions
- That has been spilt; simple past tense and past...
Ancestry of “spilt”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | -t | Forms the past tense and/or past participle of... |
| 2 | Middle English | -t | Forms the past tense and past participle of certain weak verbs |
| 3 | Old English | -t | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | -þiz | Forms abstract nouns from verb roots, usually... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |