different between milt vs kilt

English

Etymology

From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-Germanic *melt? (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

milt (plural milts)

1. The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
   • 1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life:

     Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.

2. The semen of a male fish.

Synonyms

• (spleen): spleen; lien (uncommon)
• (fish semen): soft roe, white roe

Derived terms

Related terms

• miltsiekte
• miltz

Translations

Verb

milt (third-person singular simple present milts, present participle milting, simple past and past participle milted)

1. (transitive) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

milt c (singular definite milten, plural indefinite milte)

1. spleen

Declension

References

• “milt” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle Dutch milte, from Old Dutch *milta, from Proto-Germanic *melt?.

Noun

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)

1. spleen

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Etymology 1

From Old Norse milti, Proto-Germanic *miltij?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”).

Noun

milt n (genitive singular milts, plural milt)

1. spleen

Inflection

Synonyms

• milti

Etymology 2

From the adjective mildur.

Adjective

milt

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of mildur

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Adjective

milt

1. strong neuter singular nominative of mildur

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

milt m (definite singular milten, indefinite plural milter, definite plural miltene)

1. spleen (organ)

Derived terms

• miltbrann

References

• “milt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• milte

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

milt m or n (definite singular milten or miltet, indefinite plural miltar or milt, definite plural miltane or milta)

1. spleen (organ)

Derived terms

• miltbrann

References

• “milt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Adjective

milt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of mild.

Adverb

milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)

1. gently, mildly; blandly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

From Middle English kilten (“to tuck up, gird”), apparently of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Old Norse kelta, kjalta (“skirt; lap”). Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kelt-, *kelþ?, *kilþ?? (“womb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“round body; child”). Cognate with Danish kilte (“to tuck”), Swedish kilta (“to swathe”). Related to English child.

Alternative forms

• kelt, quelt (obsolete)

Verb

kilt (third-person singular simple present kilts, present participle kilting, simple past and past participle kilted)

1. To gather up (skirts) around the body. [from 14th c.]
   • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 385:

     Else at her new place worked outdoor and indoor, she'd to kilt her skirts (if they needed kilting – and that was damned little with those short-like frocks) and go out and help at the spreading of dung […].

Noun

kilt (plural kilts)

1. A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. [from 18th c.]
2. (historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid
3. A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19^th century USA.
4. A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.

Synonyms

• filibeg, philibeg

Translations

Etymology 2

kill +? -t

Alternative forms

• killt

Verb

kilt

1. (obsolete or African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of killed: simple past tense and past participle of kill.
   • 1970 (reprinted 1999) Norman R. Yetman (ed.), Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives, Courier Corporation, ?ISBN, p. 160:

     But tweren’t so awful long before Marse Hampton got kilt in de big battle, and Marse Thad, too. Dey was both kilt in de charge, right dere on de breastworks, with de guns in dey hands, dem two young masters of mine, right dere in dat Gettysburg battle […] And I was eighteen in dat October after dat big fight what Marse Thad and Marse Hampton got kilt in.

References

Anagrams

• lik't

Cebuano

Etymology

From English kilt.

Noun

kilt

1. a kilt

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

kilt

1. past participle of kile

Portuguese

Noun

kilt m (plural kilts)

1. kilt (traditional Scottish man’s skirt)