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spalt
English
Etymology
Compare German Spalt (“stein”), from spalten (“to split”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??lt/
Noun
spalt (uncountable)
- Spelter.
Adjective
spalt (comparative more spalt, superlative most spalt)
- (of wood) Brittle.
- Note: (US) Spalted wood is that which has been cut from a naturally cured, dead, or dying hardwood tree whose wood is normally light in color (such as pecan), and which exhibits patterns of dark stain (crazed) lines and splotches caused by microorganisms and/or fungus. Although slightly more brittle and porous than normal wood from the same species of tree, spalted wood nevertheless can be used to make decorative items and small pieces of furniture.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.
Verb
spalt (third-person singular simple present spalts, present participle spalting, simple past and past participle spalted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To break off pieces, or have them broken off, especially with an axe etc; to splinter.
- Synonym: spall
Anagrams
- -plast, plats, slapt, splat
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?palt/
Verb
spalt
- singular imperative of spalten
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
spalt
- imperative of spalte
Old High German
Etymology
Related to Lombardic spalt (“crack, fissure”); see modern German spalten (“to cleave”).
Noun
spalt m
- crack, fissure
Descendants
- German: Spalt, Spalte
- ? Italian: spalto
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “spill”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Swedish
Etymology
Used in Swedish since 1657, same as Danish spalte, from German Spalte, based on the verb spalten (“to split”), related to Swedish spjäll, spilla, spillra
Noun
spalt c
- a (long and narrow) gap
- a column (of text)
Declension
Synonyms
- glugg
- kolumn
Related terms
- spalta
- spaltbredd
- spaltmeter
- spaltutrymme
References
- spalt in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- spalt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- spalt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Anagrams
- plast, plats
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shalt
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ælt/
Verb
shalt
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of shall
- Thou shalt not kill.
Anagrams
- Stahl, halts, lasht, laths, sthal
shalt From the web:
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- what shall we say to these things
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