Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spiltaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Unknown. It may or may not be cognate with Russian по́лба (pólba, “spelt”) and Latin puls (“porridge (usually of spelt)”) and Ancient Greek πόλτος (póltos, “porridge (usually of spelt)”). Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelH- (“to split off, separate”), or borrowed from an unknown substrate by Germanic and Latin.^[1]

*spiltaz m

1. spelt (a type of wheat)

• Old Saxon: spelta
  • Middle Low German: spelte
    • Low German: Spelt
    • → Norwegian: spelt
    • → Swedish: spelt
    • → Danish: spelt
    • →? West Frisian: spjelt
  • → Old English: spelt
    • Middle English: spelt
      • English: spelt
        • → Irish: speilt
        • → Welsh: sbelt
• Frankish: *spelta
  • Old Dutch: *spelta
    • Middle Dutch: spelte
      • Dutch: spelt
  • → Latin: spelta (see there for further descendants)
• Old High German: spelz
  • Middle High German: spelz
    • German: Spelz
    • Luxembourgish: Spelz
• Old Norse: spelti, speldi (< *spiltō)
  • Icelandic: speldi