"Balt" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /bɒlt/ [UK], /bɔːlt/ [UK], /bɔlt/ [US], /bɑlt/ [cot-caught-merger] Forms: Balts [plural]
enPR: bŏlt [cot-caught-merger], bôlt [cot-caught-merger], bält [cot-caught-merger] Rhymes: -ɒlt, -ɔːlt Etymology: From Medieval Latin and Late Latin Balthae; see Baltic. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|-}} Medieval Latin, {{der|en|LL.|Balthae}} Late Latin Balthae, {{m|en|Baltic}} Baltic Head templates: {{en-noun}} Balt (plural Balts)
  1. 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.
    Sense id: en-Balt-en-noun-UH9yUH4M
  2. A native speaker of one of the Baltic languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian, Sudovian and related languages.
    Sense id: en-Balt-en-noun-I84TQzsP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 50 25
  3. (rare) An inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia. Tags: rare Translations (inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states): bàltic [masculine] (Catalan), bàltica [feminine] (Catalan), balter [common-gender] (Danish), baltti (Finnish), Balte [feminine, masculine] (French), ბალტი (balṭi) (Georgian), Balte [masculine] (German), Baltin [feminine] (German), balti (Hungarian), baltico [masculine] (Italian), baltica [feminine] (Italian), balter [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), baltar [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Bałt [masculine] (Polish), Bałtyjka [feminine] (Polish), báltico [masculine] (Spanish), báltica [feminine] (Spanish), balt [common-gender] (Swedish), baltiska (note: only woman) [common-gender] (Swedish), Baltwr [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-Balt-en-noun-oODmw-JE Disambiguation of 'inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states': 28 22 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Baltic, Baltica, Balto-Slavic

Inflected forms

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