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Cimbrian
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
Noun
balt m (plural bèllar, diminutive bèllale)
- (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
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noun
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| nominative
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an
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dar
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balt
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de
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bèllar
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| accusative
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an
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in
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balt
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de
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bèllar
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| dative
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aname
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me
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balte
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in
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bèllarn
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Derived terms
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 , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
- ^ Rita Morandi, Contact-induced Language Change and Its Socio-historical Correlates, page 42
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
balt
- inflection of ballen:
- second/third-person singular present indicative
- (archaic) plural imperative
Hungarian
Etymology
bal (“left ”) + -t (accusative suffix)
Pronunciation
Adjective
balt
- accusative singular of bal
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin balteus (“belt”).
Noun
balt m (genitive singular built, plural baltan)
- welt (of a shoe)
- border, belt
- selvage (of cloth)
- moustache
- Synonyms: mustais, stais, feusag-bheòil, ròibeag, réibean, ròibean, caisean-feusaig
- (Arran) man's collar
Mutation
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Lenition
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bhalt
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “balt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
Swedish
Etymology
From Late Latin Balthae; see Balt.
Noun
balt c
- Balt (native of the Baltic states, chiefly male)
Declension