amelcorn

From German Amelkorn: compare Middle High German amel, amer (“spelt”) and Latin amylum (“starch”), from Ancient Greek ἄμυλον (ámulon).

amelcorn (uncountable)

1. (archaic) spelt (Triticum spelta).

• French rice

• “amelcorn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “amelcorn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• cornmeal