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Balt

Balt

See also: balt, balț, Bałt, and Balt.

English

Any of these peoples.
A speaker of one of these languages.

Noun

Balt (countable and uncountable, plural Balts)

  1. An inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia.
  2. An ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
  3. A native speaker of one of the Baltic languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian, Sudovian and related languages.

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balt

balt

See also: Balt, balț, Bałt, and Balt.

Cimbrian

Noun

balt m (plural bèllar)

  1. woods; forest

Derived terms

  • bèllale (diminutive)

References

  • “balt” in Umberto Martello Martalar, Alfonso Bellotto, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Setti Communi vicentini, 1st edition, 1974.
  1. Rita Morandi, Contact-induced Language Change and Its Socio-historical Correlates, page 42

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

balt

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

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

balt m (genitive singular built, plural baltan)

  1. welt (of a shoe)
  2. border, belt
  3. selvage (of cloth)
  4. moustache
  5. (Arran) man's collar

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