balt
Cimbrian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Declension of balt
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “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
- ^ Rita Morandi, Contact-induced Language Change and Its Socio-historical Correlates, page 42
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
balt
- inflection of ballen:
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
bal (“left [one]”) + -t (accusative suffix)
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
balt
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin balteus (“belt”).
Noun edit
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 edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
balt | bhalt |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “balt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin Balthae; see Balt.
Noun edit
balt c
- Balt (native of the Baltic states, chiefly male)
Declension edit
Declension of balt | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | balt | balten | balter | balterna |
Genitive | balts | baltens | balters | balternas |