Belt
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Proper noun edit
Belt (countable and uncountable, plural Belts)
- A surname.
- A town in Montana
- Ellipsis of Main Asteroid Belt. A region of Solar System
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Etymology edit
Attested as De Belt in 1839-1859. Derived from dialectal belt (“small hill, slightly elevated place”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: Belt
Proper noun edit
Belt n
- A hamlet in Hollands Kroon, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
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Etymology edit
From Danish bælt, from Latin Baltia, a mythological island described by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, of unclear origin. It bears no relation to Danish bælte (“belt”), which is derived from Latin balteus (“belt, girdle”) and for which the German word is Gürtel.
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Noun edit
Belt m (strong, genitive Beltes or Belts, plural Belte)
- (Denmark) strait
Declension edit
Declension of Belt [masculine, strong]
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Further reading edit
- “Belt” in Duden online
- Mishkova, Diana, Trencsényi, Balázs (2017) European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History[2], Berghahn Books, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-12-01, page 57
- Hałub, Marek, Schuster, Kurt G. P. (2005) Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Internationales Symposion Wrocław/Breslau 2003[3] (in German), Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-12-01, page 253