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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *spiltaz</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
      </titleStmt>
      <publicationStmt>
        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_spiltaz</idno>
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        <p>Single-entry extract from the dictionary. Cross-references to other entries point to their identifiers in the full dictionary.</p>
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      <list type="cognates">
        <item xml:id="cog_ine-x-proto_s_pelh" xml:lang="ine-x-proto" type="etymon">
          <orth>*(s)pelH-</orth>
        </item>
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        <entry xml:id="pgmc_spiltaz" type="noun" corresp="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spiltaz">
          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>spiltaz</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈspil.tɑz</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛊᛈᛁᛚᛏᚨᛉ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">masculine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">a-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>spelt (a type of wheat)</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">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 <mentioned xml:lang="ine-x-proto" target="#cog_ine-x-proto_s_pelh"><ref target="#cog_ine-x-proto_s_pelh">*(s)pelH-</ref></mentioned> (‘to split off, separate’), or borrowed from an unknown substrate by Germanic and Latin.</seg>
          </etym>
          <re type="paradigm">
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>spiltaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>spiltōz, spiltōs</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>spiltą</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>spiltanz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>spiltas, spiltis</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>spiltǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>spiltai</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>spiltamaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>spiltō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>spiltamiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>spilt</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>spiltōz, spiltōs</orth>
            </form>
          </re>
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              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                  <orth>spelta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                    <orth>spelte</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Danish</lang>
                      <orth>spelt</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Low German</lang>
                      <orth>Spelt</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian</lang>
                      <orth>spelt</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>spelt</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>spjelt</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                  <orth>spelta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>spelt</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>spelt</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>spelt</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Cornish</lang>
                          <orth>spelt</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Irish</lang>
                          <orth>speilt</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Welsh</lang>
                          <orth>sbelt</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Frankish</lang>
                  <orth>*spelta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Latin</lang>
                    <orth>spelta</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Frankish</lang>
                  <orth>*spelta</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*spelta</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>spelte</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>spelt</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old High German</lang>
                  <orth>spelz</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                    <orth>spelz</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>German</lang>
                      <orth>Spelz</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                      <orth>Spelz</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>spelti</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>speldi</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>speldi</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>speldi</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*spiltō</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                    <orth>speldi</orth>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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