pelti

Borrowed from dialectal Swedish spält, späld, späll, dialectal variants of Swedish spjäll (“damper”), from Old Norse spjald, from Proto-Germanic *speldą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpelti/, [ˈpe̞lt̪i]
• Rhymes: -elti
• Syllabification^(key): pel‧ti

pelti

1. sheet metal (as material)
2. plate (flat, flexible, metallic object of uniform thickness; a part made of sheet metal)
3. sheet, baking sheet (flat metal pan used for baking in oven)
4. damper (valve or movable plate in the flue duct of a stove, furnace, etc., used to regulate the draught of air)

• (plate): A metal plate thicker than a few millimeters is better called levy. If necessary, the material of the plate can be specified by adding a modifier, e.g. teräslevy (“steel plate”).

• pellittää
• peltinen

• pelit