balt
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
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
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 [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
Pronunciation
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Verb
balt
Hungarian
Etymology
bal (“left [one]”) + -t (accusative suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɒlt]
- Rhymes: -ɒlt
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
| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| balt | bhalt |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “balt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
Swedish
Etymology
From Late Latin Balthae; see Balt.
Noun
balt c
- Balt (native of the Baltic states, chiefly male)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | balt | balts |
| definite | balten | baltens | |
| plural | indefinite | balter | balters |
| definite | balterna | balternas |