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spell
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sp?l, IPA(key): /sp?l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spell? (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to tell”). Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”).
Noun
spell (plural spells)
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: cantrip, incantation
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. [from 16th c.]
- Synonym: cantrip
- (obsolete) Speech, discourse. [8th–15th c.]
Derived terms
- byspel
- spellbind
- spellbound
- spellwork
Translations
Verb
spell (third-person singular simple present spells, present participle spelling, simple past and past participle spelled)
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- 1647, George Buck, The History and Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, London, Book 4, p. 116,[1]
- […] although the Kings Jealousie was thus particular to her, his Affection was as general to others […] Above all, for a time he was much speld with Elianor Talbot […]
- 1697, John Dryden (translator), Georgics, Book 3 in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 109, lines 444-446,[2]
- This, gather’d in the Planetary Hour,
- With noxious Weeds, and spell’d with Words of pow’r
- Dire Stepdames in the Magick Bowl infuse;
- 1817, John Keats, “To a Friend who sent me some Roses” in Poems, London: C. & J. Ollier, p. 83,[3]
- But when, O Wells! thy roses came to me
- My sense with their deliciousness was spell’d:
- 1647, George Buck, The History and Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, London, Book 4, p. 116,[1]
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English spellen, from Anglo-Norman espeler, espeleir, Old French espeller, espeler (compare Modern French épeler), from Frankish *spel?n, merged with native Old English spellian (“to tell, speak”), both eventually from Proto-Germanic *spell?n? (“to speak”). Related with etymology 1. The sense “indicate a future event” probably in part a backformation from forespell (literally “to tell in advance”).
Verb
spell (third-person singular simple present spells, present participle spelling, simple past and past participle spelled or (mostly UK) spelt)
- (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. [from 14th c.]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- "He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- (transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
- (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word). [from 19th c.]
- (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail. [from 20th c.]
- 2003, U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbel, Hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, ?ISBN:
- When we get elected, for instance, we get one of these, and we are pretty much told what is in it, and it is our responsibility to read it and understand it, and if we do not, the Ethics Committee, we can call them any time of day and ask them to spell it out for us […]
- 2003, U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbel, Hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, ?ISBN:
- (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur. [from 19th c.]
- To constitute; to measure.
- the Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect
- (obsolete) To speak, to declaim. [9th-16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
- O who can tell / The hidden power of herbes, and might of Magicke spell?
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
- (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
- 1770, Thomas Warton, “Ode on the Approach of Summer” in A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: G. Pearch, Volume 1, p. 278,[5]
- As thro’ the caverns dim I wind,
- Might I that legend find,
- By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes,
- 1770, Thomas Warton, “Ode on the Approach of Summer” in A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: G. Pearch, Volume 1, p. 278,[5]
Derived terms
- fingerspell
- forespell
- speller
- spelling
- spello
- spell out
- spell trouble
Synonyms
- (to indicate that some event will occur): forebode; mean; signify
- (to work in place of someone else): relieve
- (to compose a word): (informal) comprise
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English spelen, from Old English spelian (“to represent, take or stand in the place of another, act as a representative of another”), akin to Middle English spale (“a rest or break”), Old English spala (“representative, substitute”).
Verb
spell (third-person singular simple present spells, present participle spelling, simple past and past participle spelled or spelt)
- (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
- to spell the helmsman
- (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
Derived terms
- spell off
Translations
Noun
spell (plural spells)
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour. [from 16th c.]
- (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity). [from 18th c.]
- (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance. [from 18th c.]
- A period of rest; time off. [from 19th c.]
- (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc. [from 19th c.]
- (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler. [from 20th c.]
Derived terms
- cold spell
- dry spell
- set a spell
Descendants
- ? Welsh: sbel
Translations
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:spell.
Etymology 4
Origin uncertain; perhaps a form of speld.
Noun
spell (plural spells)
- (dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
Anagrams
- Pells, pells
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?tl/
Noun
spell n (genitive singular spels, plural spell)
- pity, shame
- stór spell
- big shame
- tað var spell
- it was a pity
- spell var í honum
- it was too bad for him
- stór spell
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From the verb spelle
Noun
spell n (definite singular spellet, indefinite plural spell, definite plural spella or spellene)
- Alternative form of spill
See also
- spel (Nynorsk)
Etymology 2
Verb
spell
- imperative of spelle
Old English
Alternative forms
- spel
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *spell.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spell/, [spe?]
Noun
spell n
- story
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- news
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- prose or a work of prose
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
Declension
Antonyms
- l?oþ (“poem”)
- l?oþcræft (“poetry”)
Derived terms
- b?spell
- godspell
- spellian
Descendants
- Middle English: spell, spel
- English: spell
References
- “spell” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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dweomer
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle English dweomer, from Old English dwimor, from Proto-Germanic *dwemr?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to whisk, raise dust, fume”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dw?.m?(?)/, /?dw?.m?(?)/, /?dwi?.m?(?)/
Noun
dweomer (usually uncountable, plural dweomers)
- Alternative spelling of dwimmer
- (fantasy, games) The magical aura on an enchanted item; or more broadly, the aura of a magic spell having been cast while active.
Derived terms
- dweomercraft
Anagrams
- Wedmore, remowed
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