Etymology Explorer › Old English

Where does “spilc” come from?

spilc (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic spalkuz — bast, splint.

spilc (Old English): little rod by which things are kept straight or a...

Definitions

  1. little rod by which things are kept straight or a...

Ancestry of “spilc”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicspalkuzbast, splint

Words derived from “spilc”

  • spelk
  • spelke
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