Noun: malt
Sample Sentences
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Oh many a peer of England brews
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Livelier liquor than the Muse,
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And malt does more than Milton can
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To justify God's ways to man. [1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, section LXII:]
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Afterward she sat in the drugstore sucking malt through a straw. [1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 89:]
Nouns inflected like malt
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
1. 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”).
2. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
malt', Old English Nouns '
mealt', Dutch Nouns '
mout', German Nouns '
Malz', Swedish Nouns '
malt', Czech Nouns '
mláto'.
Verbs referencing "malt"
Dutch Nouns
mout, Catalan Nouns
malt, French Nouns
malt, Dutch Nouns
maltose, Italian Nouns
malto.