spell

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from or from  with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
 * 2) A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
 * 3)  Speech, discourse.
 * 1) A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
 * 2)  Speech, discourse.
 * 1)  Speech, discourse.
 * 1)  Speech, discourse.
 * 1)  Speech, discourse.
 * 1)  Speech, discourse.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: تَعْوِيذَة
 * Azerbaijani: ovsun,, , pitik
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, , embruixament, encantament
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, zaříkadlo, zaklínadlo
 * Danish: fortryllelse, besværgelse
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sorĉo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , ,
 * Friulian: fature
 * Galician:, feitizo
 * Georgian:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐπαοιδή, ἐπῳδή, κήλημα, μάγευμα
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: taika, noitasana
 * Interlingua: incantamento, formula magic
 * Irish: briocht draíochta, ortha, piseog
 * Italian:, formula magica, , , , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khalaj: afsûn, əfsûn
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: veneficium,, incantatio, cantamen, cantamen, fascinum
 * Latvian: burvju vārdi
 * Malay: ,
 * Maori: hoa-
 * Middle English: conjurisoun, charme
 * Norman: charme, chorchéthon
 * Norwegian: trylleformel,, besvergelse
 * Old English: gealdor
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: tawal
 * Tibetan: མཐུ་སྔགས, ངན་སྔགས
 * Tocharian B: näsait
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: заклина́ння, закля́ття
 * Urdu: منتر, جادو, سحر, ٹونا,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: swyn


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, , embruixament, encantament
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Icelandic: álög
 * Interlingua: incantamento
 * Irish: briocht draíochta, draíocht, geis
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: veneficium, incantamentum, fascinum,, effascinatio, , cantamen
 * Latvian:
 * Norman: charme
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tibetan: རྨོངས་བྱེད, ངན་སྔགས
 * Tocharian B: näsait
 * Ukrainian: ча́ри, закля́ття

Verb

 * 1) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
 * 2) * 1697, (translator), Georgics, Book 3 in The Works of , London: Jacob Tonson, p. 109, lines 444-446,
 * This, gather’d in the Planetary Hour,
 * With noxious Weeds, and spell’d with Words of pow’r
 * Dire Stepdames in the Magick Bowl infuse;
 * With noxious Weeds, and spell’d with Words of pow’r
 * Dire Stepdames in the Magick Bowl infuse;

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: začarovat
 * German:
 * Spanish:
 * Tibetan: མཐུ་འདེབས, རྨོངས་སུ་འཇུག

Etymology 2
From, from , , , (compare Modern 🇨🇬), from , merged with native , both eventually from. Related with etymology 1. The sense “indicate a future event” probably in part a backformation from.

Verb

 * 1)   To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
 * 2)  To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
 * 3)  Of letters: to compose (a word).
 * 4)  To clarify; to explain in detail.
 * 5)  To indicate that (some event) will occur;.
 * 6) To constitute; to measure.
 * 7)  To speak, to declaim.
 * 8)  To tell; to relate; to teach.
 * 9) * 1770,, “Ode on the Approach of Summer” in A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: G. Pearch, Volume 1, p. 278,
 * As thro’ the caverns dim I wind,
 * Might I that legend find,
 * By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes,
 * 1) To constitute; to measure.
 * 2)  To speak, to declaim.
 * 3)  To tell; to relate; to teach.
 * 4) * 1770,, “Ode on the Approach of Summer” in A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, London: G. Pearch, Volume 1, p. 278,
 * As thro’ the caverns dim I wind,
 * Might I that legend find,
 * By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes,
 * As thro’ the caverns dim I wind,
 * Might I that legend find,
 * By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes,

Synonyms

 * ; mean; signify
 * comprise

Translations

 * Arabic: هَجَّى, تَهَجَّى
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: letreiatu
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: hláskovat
 * Danish: stave
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: stavseta
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: დამარცვლით კითხვა
 * German: ;
 * Greek: γράφω ορθογραφημένα,
 * Hawaiian: pela
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: stafa, stafsetja
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: orthographiar
 * Irish: litrigh
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 철자하다
 * Latvian: uzrakstīt, izrunāt
 * Malay: mengeja​
 * Maori: tātaki, takikupu, tātaki kupu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: stava
 * Persian:, املاء کردن
 * Polish:, przeliterowywać, przeliterować
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: произноси́ть по бу́квам
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Walloon:
 * Yiddish: אויסלייגן


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: هَجَّى, تَهَجَّى
 * Armenian: բառ կազմել
 * Basque:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: stave
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: veerima
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სიტყვების შედგენა
 * German: ,
 * Greek: γράφω ορθογραφημένα
 * Ancient Greek: ἐπιγράφω
 * Hawaiian: pela, hoʻokuʻi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic: stafa
 * Interlingua: componer
 * Irish: litrigh
 * Italian:, fare lo spelling,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 철자하다
 * Latin: conscribo
 * Latvian: nosaukt pa burtiem
 * Lithuanian:
 * Malay: mengeja​
 * Maori: tātaki
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: se scrie
 * Russian: писа́ть по бу́квам
 * Scottish Gaelic: litrich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དག་ཆ་བྲིས
 * Turkish: harflerini söylemek
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Interlingua: indicar
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, , auf gut Deutsch gesagt
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Indonesian:

Etymology 3
From, from , akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To work in place of (someone).
 * to spell the helmsman
 * 1)   To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
 * They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
 * 1)  To rest from work for a time.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: invallen voor
 * Finnish: olla sijaisena, ,
 * German: ,
 * Interlingua: relevar
 * Italian:, , dare il cambio,
 * Latvian: aizvietot, nomainīt
 * Maori: whakakapi
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: давам почивка
 * Finnish:
 * Maori: whakaokioki

Noun

 * 1) A shift (of work);  a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
 * 2)  A definite period (of work or other activity).
 * 3)  An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier);  a relatively short distance.
 * 4) A period of rest; time off.
 * 5)  A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
 * 6)  An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
 * 1) A period of rest; time off.
 * 2)  A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
 * 3)  An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
 * 1) A period of rest; time off.
 * 2)  A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
 * 3)  An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: кратко време
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * German: kurze Periode,, ,
 * Greek:
 * Interlingua: breve periodo, intervallo
 * Irish: tamall, scaitheamh, seal
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian: īss laika sprīdis
 * Maori: of unbroken sleep
 * Polish: krótki okres
 * Portuguese: breve período,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , , промежу́ток вре́мени
 * Scottish Gaelic: ùine, spealag
 * Spanish: ,
 * Welsh: sbel


 * Finnish:
 * Irish: rith tinnis
 * Spanish:, pataleta


 * Italian: ,

Etymology 4
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
 * 2) The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
 * 1) The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

Noun

 * 1) pity, shame
 * 2) * stór spell
 * big shame
 * 1) * tað var spell
 * it was a pity
 * 1) * spell var í honum
 * it was too bad for him

Etymology 1
From the verb.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) story
 * 2) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"
 * "ang"

- Ne wēne iċ, nū iċ lang spell hæbbe tō seċġenne, þæt iċ hīe on þisse bēċ ġeendian mæġe, ac iċ ōðre onġinnan sċeal.


 * 1) * late 9th century, The Voyage of Ohthere and Wulfstan
 * "ang"

- Fela spella him sæġdon þā Beormas, ǣġðer ġe of heora āgnum lande ġe of þām landum þe ymb hīe ūtan wǣron, ac hē nysse hwæt þæs sōðes wæs, for þon þe hē hit self ne ġeseah.


 * 1) news
 * 2) * late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
 * "ang"

- Þæt forme sċip ġesōhte land and ġebodode þæt eġeslīċe spell.


 * 1) prose or a work of prose
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Þā hē þās bōc hæfde ġeleornode and of Lǣdene tō Engliscum spelle ġewende, þā ġeworhte hē hīe eft tō lēoðe.


 * 1) argument
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Iċ onġiete þæt iċ þē hæbbe āþrotenne mid þȳ langan spelle, for þon þē lyst nū lēoða.

Usage notes

 * Spell and mean an argument as in a line of reasoning. For the sense "a debate, dispute, quarrel,"  is used.