Noun: spell
| Singular | spell |
| Plural | spells |
Sample Sentences
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He cast a spell to cure warts.
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under a spell
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Skies are not so black / Mary took me back / Mary has broken your spell [1962, Marty Robbins, “Devil Woman”:]
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I believe your love has placed its spell on me [2020, Deftones, The Spell of Mathematics:]
Nouns inflected like spell
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to tell”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to speak, to sound”) with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”). See: Middle English Nouns '
spell', Old English Nouns '
spell', German Nouns '
Spill', Icelandic Nouns '
spjall'.
Verbs referencing "spell"
Icelandic Nouns
spjall, Gothic Nouns
𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻.