smylte

• smolt, smelt

From a variant or alteration of Proto-Germanic *smultaz. The expected form smolt occurs, but is not the regular form in West Saxon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmyl.te/, [ˈsmyɫ.te]

smylte

1. calm (of someone's mood)
2. calm (of the weather, the sea, etc.)
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's [ https://archive.org/details/oldenglishversio00alfruoft/page/30/mode/2up?ref=ol translation] of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Swā-swā scypes [hlāford], þonne þæt scyp unge-tǣlicost on ancre rīt and sēo sǣ hrēohost byð, ðonne wōt hē ġewiss smelte wedere tōwæard.

     So the ship's master, when the ship rideth most unsteadily at anchor and the sea is roughest, then knoweth of a truth that calm weather is coming.

• Middle English: smolt
  • Scots: smowt, smolt
  • English: smolt