"formelt" meaning in English

See formelt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: formelts [present, singular, third-person], formelting [participle, present], formelted [past], formolt [past], formelted [participle, past], formolten [participle, past]
Etymology: From Middle English formelten, from Old English formeltan (“to melt away, dissolve, liquefy, burn up”), equivalent to for- + melt. Compare German verschmelzen, Dutch versmelten. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|formelten}} Middle English formelten, {{inh|en|ang|formeltan||to melt away, dissolve, liquefy, burn up}} Old English formeltan (“to melt away, dissolve, liquefy, burn up”), {{prefix|en|for|melt}} for- + melt, {{cog|de|verschmelzen}} German verschmelzen, {{cog|nl|versmelten}} Dutch versmelten Head templates: {{en-verb|past2=formolt|past_ptc2=formolten}} formelt (third-person singular simple present formelts, present participle formelting, simple past formelted or formolt, past participle formelted or formolten)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To melt; melt away; dissolve. Tags: intransitive, transitive Synonyms: foremelt

Inflected forms

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