Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta (Common names)

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Names in common use

• English: spelt
• German: Spelz, Spelzweizen, Dinkel
• Dutch: rijs spelt, duitse spelt
• Swedish: spelt, speltvete
• Danish: spelt
• Norwegian: spelt
• Icelandic:
  

• French: épeautre, grand épeautre
• Italian: spelta, faricello, grande farro
• Spanish: escanda, escaña, espelta
• Catalan: espelta
• Portuguese: espelta
• Romanian: alac, grîu spelta
  

• Russian: спелта, пшеница спелта - spelta, pšenica spelta
• Polish: orkisz, pszenica orkisz
• Czech: pšenice špalda
• Slovak: pšenica špaldová
• Bulgarian: пшеница спелта - pšenica spelta
• Croatian: pir, prava pšenica
• Serb:
• Slovenian:
  

• Latvian:
• Lithuanian:
• Albanian: grurë speltë (gruri with the article)
• Greek:
• Turkish: kızıl buğday, kavuzlu buğday
• Maltese:
• Hungarian: tönköly
• Finnish:
• Estonian:
  

Sources and commentaries

• French
  • Épeautre is the right name, but Triticum monococcum being known as petit épeautre, spelt is often called grand épeautre to avoid confusion. MC
• German
  • Spelz (masculine) is spelt, but Spelze (feminine) is a glume. So in German, Spelz tend to designate all hulled wheats (with glumes attached to the grain). This situation may explain the confusion in other languages such as French and Italian. MC
• Italian
  • Farro is a generic name for hulled wheats. MC