speld

• IPA^(key): /spɛld/
• Rhymes: -ɛld

From Middle English speld, spelde, from Old English speld (“a splinter; a chip of wood; torch”), from Proto-Germanic *speldą (“splinter, board”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”).

speld (plural spelds)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) A chip of wood; a splinter.

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speld (third-person singular simple present spelds, present participle spelding, simple past and past participle speld)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) To split.

   I'm gonna speld your head asunderǃ You worthless gat.

• spald

• http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/speld_v

• Delps, LDPEs, PLEDs

From Dutch speld, from Middle Dutch spelde, from older spelle, from Latin spīnula, diminutive of spīna.

• IPA^(key): /spɛlt/

speld (plural spelde, diminutive speldjie)

1. pin

• haakspeld
• speldekussing

• → Kwanyama: oshipela

• spel (dialectal, Southern Dutch)

From Middle Dutch spelde, from older spelle, from Latin spīnula, diminutive of spīna.

• IPA^(key): /spɛlt/

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• Hyphenation: speld
• Rhymes: -ɛlt
• Homophone: spelt

speld f (plural spelden, diminutive speldje n)

1. a pin (fastening device)
2. a brooch

   Synonym: broche

• (pin): pin

• Afrikaans: speld
  • → Kwanyama: oshipela
• Negerhollands: spel

From Proto-Germanic *speldą.

• IPA^(key): /speld/, [speɫd]

speld n (nominative plural speld or speldra)

1. splinter
2. a thin piece of wood used as a torch; torch

• (torch): blase, blysiġe, brand

• Middle English: speld, spelde
  • English: speld, spell, spill