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

spilc traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Germanic spalkuz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicspalkuzbast, splint

via Proto-Germanic spelkō

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicspelkō

via Proto-Germanic spalkō

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicspalkō

Words derived from “spilc

Every word from Proto-Germanic spalkuz