Filt
/fɪlt/noun
An obsolete or dialectal form of “felt,” a matted textile made from compressed fibers.
Did you know?“Filt” survives mainly in historical and dialect records as a spelling variant of “felt,” whose ancient Germanic name may be related to words for animal hide or skin.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*feltaz
“Felt or a matted textile; the reconstructed source of later Germanic forms”
Old English
Old English
felt
“Felt, a compressed woolen or hair textile”
Middle English
Middle English
felt, filt
“Felt; variant spellings occurred as vowels shifted across regional dialects”
16th–18th Century
English
filt
“A dialectal or obsolete form of “felt””
Modern English
English
filt
“An archaic or dialectal spelling of “felt””