balt

See also: Balt, Bałt, bált, balț, Balt., and Bält

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)

  1. (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
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative an dar balt de bèllar
accusative an in balt de bèllar
dative aname me balte in bèllarn

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
  1. Rita Morandi, Contact-induced Language Change and Its Socio-historical Correlates, page 42

Dutch

Pronunciation
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Verb

balt

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

Hungarian

Etymology

bal (“left [one]”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbɒlt]
  • Rhymes: -ɒlt

Adjective

balt

  1. accusative singular of bal

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin balteus (“belt”).

Noun

balt m (genitive singular built, plural baltan)

  1. welt (of a shoe)
  2. border, belt
  3. selvage (of cloth)
  4. moustache
    Synonyms: mustais, stais, feusag-bheòil, ròibeag, réibean, ròibean, caisean-feusaig
  5. (Arran) man's collar

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
baltbhalt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

  1. Balt (native of the Baltic states, chiefly male)

Declension
Declension of balt 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative balt balten balter balterna
Genitive balts baltens balters balternas
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