different between malt vs galt

English

Etymology

From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-Germanic *malt? (“malt”), from *maltaz (“soft; nesh; weak; squashy; melting”), from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moalt (“malt”), Dutch mout (“malt”), German Malz (“malt”), Swedish malt (“malt”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (mlad?, “tender; young”), Russian ??????? (molodoj, “young; fresh; new”). The Proto-Germanic noun was borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *malta; compare Ukrainian ?????? (mólot), Czech mláto. More at melt.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m?lt/, /m?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt

Noun

malt (countable and uncountable, plural malts)

1. Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
2. Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, LXII:

     Oh many a peer of England brews

     Livelier liquor than the Muse,

     And malt does more than Milton can

     To justify God's ways to man.

3. (US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.

   Synonym: malted

4. Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

malt (third-person singular simple present malts, present participle malting, simple past and past participle malted)

1. (transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
2. (intransitive) To become malt.
3. (intransitive, dated, humorous) To drink malt liquor.

Translations

Anagrams

• MLAT, Mat'l, matl

Danish

Verb

malt

1. past participle of male

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

malt m or n (plural malts, diminutive maltje n)

1. (especially in diminutive) malt beer

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?lt/

Verb

malt

1. inflection of malen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

Latvian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”). See also Proto-Slavic *mold?.

Verb

malt (tr., 1st conj., pres. ma?u, mal, ma?, past malu)

1. to grind
2. to mill
3. to mince
4. to purr

Conjugation

Middle English

Alternative forms

• malte, mault, maulte

Etymology

From Old English mealt.

Noun

malt (uncountable)

1. grain

Descendants

• English: malt
• Yola: mault

References

• “malt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse malt

Noun

malt n (definite singular maltet)

1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

Etymology 2

Verb

malt

1. past participle of male

References

• “malt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse malt

Noun

malt n (definite singular maltet)

1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

References

• “malt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse malt, from Proto-Germanic *malt?.

Noun

malt n

1. malt

Verb

malt

1. supine of mala.

Anagrams

• lamt

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malt]

Noun

malt (definite accusative malt?, plural maltlar)

1. malt

Declension

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malt]

Noun

malt (nominative plural malts)

1. malt (malted grain)

Declension

Synonyms

• malet (obsolete)

Derived terms

See also

• bir
• humul

English

Noun

galt

1. Alternative form of gault

Anagrams

• LGAT

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German galt, from Old High German galt, perhaps the past participle of galan (“to sing, do magic, bewitch”) (from the belief that sterile or un-milch cows are bewitched), from Proto-Germanic *galan? (“to shout, yell; to charm; to sing”).

Compare Cimbrian galt (“not milch; barren”), Carinthian galt (“infertile or pregnant (therefore not milch)”), Swabian gall (“(of sheep) not pregnant”), German gelt (“infertile”), Tyrolean galt (“unfarmed land”), Danish gold (“barren; sterile; not milch”), Old Swedish galdvider (“barren tree”).

Adjective

galt

1. (Uri, of cows) Not milch.

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.
• „galt“, in: Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm, Erstbearbeitung (1854–1960), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, abgerufen am 23.05.2020.

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German galt, from Old High German galt, perhaps the past participle of galan (“to sing, do magic, bewitch”) (from the belief that sterile or un-milch cows are bewitched), from Proto-Germanic *galan? (“to shout, yell; to charm; to sing”).

Compare Alemannic German galt (“not milch”), Carinthian galt (“infertile or pregnant (therefore not milch)”), Swabian gall (“(of sheep) not pregnant”), German gelt (“infertile”), Tyrolean galt (“unfarmed land”), Danish gold (“barren; sterile; not milch”), Old Swedish galdvider (“barren tree”).

Adjective

galt (Sette Comuni)

1. (especially of cows) Not milch.

2. (also of human women) barren, infertile

Declension

References

• “galt” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• „galt“, in: Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm, Erstbearbeitung (1854–1960), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, abgerufen am 23.05.2020.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

galt

1. first/third-person singular preterite of gelten

Icelandic

Verb

galt

1. first-person singular past indicative of gjalda
2. third-person singular past indicative of gjalda

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

galt

1. neuter singular of gal

Adverb

galt

1. wrong

References

• “gal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• galte

Etymology

From Old Norse galti, galtr, g?ltr, from Proto-Germanic *galtuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lt/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

galt m (definite singular galten, indefinite plural galtar, definite plural galtane)

1. a male pig, especially one that is castrated

   Synonyms: hanngris, råne

References

• “galt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• lagt

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish galter, from Old Norse g?ltr, from Proto-Germanic *galtô.

Noun

galt c

1. boar; male pig

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

galt

1. supine of gala.

Anagrams

• lagt