spald

Meanings

verbspald (third-person singular simple present spalds, present participle spalding, simple past and past participle spalded)

present singular third person spalds · participle present spalding · participle past spalded · past spalded

Northern EnglandScotlandTo split.

Origin

Proto-West Germanic*spilþijan“to destroy, spoil, ruin”
Middle Low Germanspalden“to spilt”
Middle Dutchspalden“to spilt”
Middle Englishspalden
Englishspald

Inherited from Middle English spalden, from either Middle Dutch spalden (“to spilt”) or Middle Low German spalden (“to spilt”), ultimately from or related to Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan (“to destroy, spoil, ruin”). Cognate with German spalten (“to split”), Danish spalte (“to split”), Norwegian spalte (“to split”), Swedish spalta (“to split”).

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