balt

balt

See also: Balt, Bałt, bált, balț, Balt., and Bält

Cimbrian

FWOTD – 7 July 2014

Etymology

From Middle High German walt, from Old High German wald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz. Cognate with German Wald, English wold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalt/[1]

Noun

balt m (plural bèllar, diminutive bèllale)

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) woods, forest

   Dar balt rüstet de perghe un ghit herbighe in bögallen. ― The forest covers the mountains and shelters the birds.

Declension

Declension of balt

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	dar	balt	de	bèllar
accusative	an	in	balt	de	bèllar
dative	aname	me	balte	in	bèllarn

Derived terms

• dorbèllaran

References

• “balt” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

1. Rita Morandi, Contact-induced Language Change and Its Socio-historical Correlates, page 42

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

balt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of ballen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of ballen

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Hungarian

Etymology

bal (“left [one]”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒlt]
• Rhymes: -ɒlt

Adjective

balt

1. accusative singular of bal

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin balteus (“belt”).

Noun

balt m (genitive singular built, plural baltan)

1. welt (of a shoe)
2. border, belt
3. selvage (of cloth)
4. moustache

   Synonyms: mustais, stais, feusag-bheòil, ròibeag, réibean, ròibean, caisean-feusaig

5. (Arran) man's collar

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
balt	bhalt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “balt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

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Swedish

Etymology

From Late Latin Balthae; see Balt.

Noun

balt c

1. Balt (native of the Baltic states, chiefly male)

Declension

Declension of balt
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	balt	balten	balter	balterna
Genitive	balts	baltens	balters	balternas

Related terms

• Baltikum
• baltisk
• baltiska