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): /spɔːlt/ Rhymes: -ɔːlt === 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. heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy. === Verb === spalt (third-person singular simple present spalts, present participle spalting, simple past and past participle spalted) (ambitransitive) 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): /ʃpalt/ === 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 (2001–2026), “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) a (recurring) section with certain contents in a paper or magazine; a column ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== glugg kolumn ==== Derived terms ==== gomspalt (“cleft palate”) ==== Related terms ==== spalta spaltbredd spaltmeter spaltutrymme ==== See also ==== springa === References === “spalt”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “spalt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “spalt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) spalt in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922) === Anagrams === plast, plats