Spell

Etymology 1
spel:, spellian:. Cognate with dialectal German Spill:, spellen:.

Noun

 * 1)  Speech, discourse.
 * 2) Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
 * He cast a spell to cure warts.
 * 1) A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
 * under a spell

Related terms

 * spellbind, spellbound

Synonyms

 * cantrip, incantation
 * cantrip

Translations

 * Catalan: encís, conjur, embruixament, encantament
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: loits
 * Finnish:
 * French: charme, maléfice , sort
 * German: Zauberspruch
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: mantra
 * Interlingua: incantamento, formula magic,


 * Italian:, formula magica
 * Korean: 주문, 마력
 * Latin:, incantamentum, fascium, fascinatio, fascinum
 * Norwegian: trylleformel, formel, besvergelse
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: encanto, encantamento , feitiço , fórmula mágica
 * Romanian: vrajă, farmec , descântec
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: trollformel, besvärjelse


 * Catalan: encís, conjur, embruixament, encantament
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: charme, maléfice
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: incantamento


 * Latin:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: encanto, encantamento , feitiço
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: trollformel, besvärjelse

Verb

 * 1)  To speak, to declaim.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
 * O who can tell / The hidden power of herbes, and might of Magicke spell?

Etymology 2
From espeler: ( > Modern French épeler:), ultimately from.

Verb

 * 1)  To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
 * 2) * 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
 * "He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
 * 1)  To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
 * 2)  Of letters: to compose (a word).
 * The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.
 * 1)  To indicate that (some event) will occur.
 * This spells trouble.
 * 1)  To clarify; to explain in detail.
 * 2) * 2003, U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbel, Hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, ISBN 1422334120:
 * When we get elected, for instance, we get one of these, and we are pretty much told what is in it, and it is our responsibility to read it and understand it, and if we do not, the Ethics Committee, we can call them any time of day and ask them to spell it out for us[...].
 * When we get elected, for instance, we get one of these, and we are pretty much told what is in it, and it is our responsibility to read it and understand it, and if we do not, the Ethics Committee, we can call them any time of day and ask them to spell it out for us[...].

Derived terms

 * speller
 * spelling
 * spello

Synonyms

 * forebode; mean; signify
 * relieve
 * comprise

Translations

 * Arabic: تهجئ
 * Armenian: բառ կազմել
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 拼, 拼字
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: veerima
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სიტყვების შედგენა
 * German:
 * Greek: γράφω ορθογραφημένα (grápho orthographiména)
 * Hungarian:
 * German:
 * Greek: γράφω ορθογραφημένα (grápho orthographiména)
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:
 * Hungarian:


 * Interlingua: componer
 * Irish: litrigh
 * Italian:, fare lo spelling
 * Japanese: 綴る
 * Khmer: ប្រកប
 * Korean: 철자
 * Latin: conscribo
 * Mongolian: үсэглэх
 * Norwegian: stave
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: по
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (sàgòt)
 * Turkish: harflerini söylemek
 * Russian: по
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (sàgòt)
 * Turkish: harflerini söylemek
 * Turkish: harflerini söylemek


 * Arabic: تهجئ
 * Armenian: հեգել
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 拼, 拼寫, 拼写, 拼字
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: დამარცვლით კითხვა, ასოების დასახელება
 * German:, (richtich)
 * Greek: γράφω ορθογραφημένα (grápho orthographiména)
 * Hebrew: איית
 * Greek: γράφω ορθογραφημένα (grápho orthographiména)
 * Hebrew: איית


 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: orthographiar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 綴る
 * Korean: 철자
 * Polish: przeliterować
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: произносить по
 * Serbian: sricati
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: hecelemek
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: hecelemek
 * Turkish: hecelemek


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: συνεπάγομαι (sinepágomay)
 * Interlingua: indicar


 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * German: klarmachen


 * Spanish:


 * : pela, kepela, kauhua, hoʻokuʻi


 * : mengeja

Etymology 3
Origin uncertain; perhaps a form of speld:.

Noun

 * 1)  A splinter, usually of wood.

Etymology 4
From spelen:, from  spelian:, akin to spala:.

Verb

 * 1)  To work in place of (someone).
 * 2)  To rest (someone or something).
 * They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.

Translations

 * Dutch: invallen voor
 * Finnish: olla, ,
 * German: abwechseln


 * Interlingua: relevar
 * Portuguese:

Noun

 * 1) A shift (of work); a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
 * 2) A period of (work or other activity).
 * 3) An indefinite period of time (usually with some qualifying word).
 * 4) * 1975, ,
 * I had a job in the great North Woods
 * Workin' as a cook for a spell.
 * But I never did like it all that much
 * And one day the ax just fell.
 * 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.

Derived terms

 * dry spell

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 阵
 * Finnish:
 * German: kurze, , Weilchen, Zeitdauer
 * Greek:
 * Interlingua: breve periodo, intervallo


 * Korean:, 한동안
 * Polish: krótki okres
 * Portuguese: breve período, intervalo
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Spanish: berrinche,


 * : 咒語, 咒语 (zhòuyǔ)


 * : periodo, malia

Anagrams

 * pells

Noun
spell


 * 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

Declension
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