Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/spiltaz

Connection with the threshing process
My student pointed out this potential connection with spalten, split, splinter and so forth. Is this valid?

https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/spalten

which points to

https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Spelt

178.197.218.252 17:43, 13 December 2023 (UTC)