Where does “spalte” come from?

spalte (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from German spalte, from Middle High German spalde, from Middle High German spalt, from Old High German spalt — crack, fissure.

spalte (Norwegian Nynorsk): split; column; to cleave, divide, split

Definitions

  1. split; column; to cleave, divide, split

Ancestry of “spalte”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanspalteinflection of spalten: ## first-person singular...
2Middle High Germanspalde—
3Middle High Germanspalt—
4Old High Germanspaltcrack, fissure
Every word from Old High German spalt →Every word from Middle High German spalt →Every word from Middle High German spalde →