*maltą

Runic: ᛗᚨᛚᛏᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈmɑl.tɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

malt

Etymology

Uncertain, from *maltaz (‘soft, gone bad’), or directly from *meltaną; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meld- (‘to beat, crush, grind’), also the root of *mildijaz. Not few voices (Uhlenbeck, Bernecker, Brückner, Kiparsky, Skok and others) deem the word instead regularly formed in Proto-Slavic *molto, which you may see, from *melti (‘to grind’).

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.maltąmaltō
Acc.maltąmaltō
Gen.maltas, maltismaltǫ̂
Dat.maltaimaltamaz
Inst.maltōmaltamiz
Voc.maltąmaltō

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Descendants

  • *malt (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *molto (Proto-Slavic)
  • *malt (Proto-West Germanic)
    • malt (Old Dutch)
      • malt, mout (Middle Dutch)
        • mout (Dutch)
          • mout (West Frisian)
  • *malt (Proto-West Germanic)
    • mealt, malt (Old English)
      • malt, malte, maltt, mault, maulte (Middle English)
        • malt (English)
        • maut (Scots)
        • mault (Yola)
  • *malt (Proto-West Germanic)
    • malt (Old Frisian)
      • Moalt (Saterland Frisian)
  • *malt (Proto-West Germanic)
    • malz (Old High German)
      • malz (Middle High German)
        • Malz (German)
        • Malz (Luxembourgish)
  • *malt (Proto-West Germanic)
    • malt (Old Saxon)
      • malt, molt (Middle Low German)
        • Molt (German Low German)
  • malt (Old Norse)
    • malt (Faroese)
    • malt (Gutnish)
    • malt (Icelandic)
    • malt (Norwegian)
  • malt (Old Norse)
    • malt (Old Danish)
      • malt (Danish)
  • malt (Old Norse)
    • malt (Old Swedish)
      • malt (Swedish)
  • *maldas (Proto-Finnic)
  • *maltaz (Proto-Finnic)

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