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malt

See also: MALT, målt, malț, and Mal't

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą (“malt”), from *maltaz (“soft; nesh; weak; squashy; melting”), from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moalt (“malt”), Dutch mout (“malt”), German Malz (“malt”), Swedish malt (“malt”), Old Church Slavonic младъ (mladŭ, “tender; young”), Russian молодой (molodoj, “young; fresh; new”). The Proto-Germanic noun was borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *malta; compare Ukrainian мо́лот (mólot), Czech mláto. More at melt.

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malt (countable and uncountable, plural malts)

  1. Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
  2. Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
    • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, section LXII:
      Oh many a peer of England brews
      Livelier liquor than the Muse,
      And malt does more than Milton can
      To justify God's ways to man.
  3. (US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
    Synonym: malted
    • 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 89:
      Afterward she sat in the drugstore sucking malt through a straw.
  4. Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

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Verb

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malt (third-person singular simple present malts, present participle malting, simple past and past participle malted)

  1. (transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
  2. (intransitive) To become malt.
  3. (intransitive, dated, humorous) To drink malt liquor.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English malt.

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Noun

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malt m (plural malts)

  1. malt

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Danish

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malt

  1. past participle of male

Dutch

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malt m or n (plural malts, diminutive maltje n)

  1. (especially in diminutive) malt beer

French

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Borrowed from English malt.

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malt m (plural malts)

  1. malt

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  • → Turkish: malt

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German

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malt

  1. inflection of malen:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person plural present
    3. plural imperative

Latvian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mélˀtei. See also Proto-Slavic *moldъ.

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malt (transitive, 1st conjugation, present maļu, mal, maļ, past malu)

  1. to grind
  2. to mill
  3. to mince
  4. to purr

Conjugation

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conjugation of malt
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) IMPERATIVE
(pavēles izteiksme)
Present
(tagadne) 		Past
(pagātne) 		Future
(nākotne)
1st pers. sg. es maļu malu malšu —
2nd pers. sg. tu mal mali malsi mal
3rd pers. sg. viņš, viņa maļ mala mals lai maļ
1st pers. pl. mēs maļam malām malsim malsim
2nd pers. pl. jūs maļat malāt malsiet,
malsit 		maliet
3rd pers. pl. viņi, viņas maļ mala mals lai maļ
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present maļot Present Active 1 (Adj.) maļošs
Past esot malis Present Active 2 (Adv.) maldams
Future malšot Present Active 3 (Adv.) maļot
Imperative lai maļot Present Active 4 (Obj.) maļam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) Past Active malis
Present maltu Present Passive maļams
Past būtu malis Past Passive malts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative (būt) jāmaļ Infinitive (nenoteiksme) malt
Conjunctive 1 esot jāmaļ Negative Infinitive nemalt
Conjunctive 2 jāmaļot Verbal noun malšana

Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą.

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  • IPA(key): /malt/, (later) /mau̯lt/

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malt (uncountable)

  1. malt (malted grain)
    • c. 1375, “Book V”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2)‎[1], Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 17, verso, lines 408-410; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:
      All þe wictalis owtane ſalt / Als quheyt and flour ⁊ meill ⁊ malt / In þe wyne sellar geꝛt he bꝛyng […]
      All the food except for salt, / like wheat, flour, meal, and malt, / he went to put in the wine-cellar […]

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse malt.

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malt n (definite singular maltet)

  1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

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malt

  1. past participle of male

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

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From Old Norse malt.

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malt n (definite singular maltet)

  1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą.

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malt c or n

  1. malt

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Declension of malt
nominative genitive
singular indefinite malt malts
definite malten maltens
plural indefinite — —
definite — —
Declension of malt
nominative genitive
singular indefinite malt malts
definite maltet maltets
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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malt

  1. supine of mala

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish مالت (malt), from French malt, itself borrowed from English malt.

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malt (definite accusative maltı, plural maltlar)

  1. malt [from 19th c.]

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Inflection
Nominative malt
Definite accusative maltı
Singular Plural
Nominative malt maltlar
Definite accusative maltı maltları
Dative malta maltlara
Locative maltta maltlarda
Ablative malttan maltlardan
Genitive maltın maltların

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Volapük

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Noun

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malt (nominative plural malts)

  1. malt (malted grain)

Declension

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declension of malt
singular plural
nominative malt malts
genitive malta maltas
dative malte maltes
accusative malti maltis
vocative 1 o malt! o malts!
predicative 2 maltu maltus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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