"Balt" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /bɒlt/ [UK], /bɔːlt/ [UK], /bɔlt/ [US], /bɑlt/ [cot-caught-merger] Forms: Balts [plural]
enPR: bŏlt [UK], bôlt [UK], bôlt [US], bält [cot-caught-merger] Rhymes: -ɒlt, -ɔːlt Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *bálˀtasbor.? Germanicbor.? Medieval Latin Balthae plbf. ▲ Latin Balthaeder. Latin Balticusbor. English Balticbf. English Balt Back-formation from Baltic and/or Medieval Latin and Late Latin Balthae; see Baltic for more. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:bf|la-med:Balthae<g:p><ety:bor<gem:-<unc:1><ety:bor<ine-bsl-pro:*bálˀtas<unc:1>>>>>|en:Baltic|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Balto-Slavic *bálˀtasbor.? Germanicbor.? Medieval Latin Balthae plbf. ▲ Latin Balthaeder. Latin Balticusbor. English Balticbf. English Balt [Appendix:Glossary#back-formation|Back-formation]] from", "terms" : [ { "g" : "p", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "is_uncertain" : true, "lang_name" : "Germanic", "status" : "inline", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "is_uncertain" : true, "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Balto-Slavic", "term" : "*bálˀtas", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "ine-bsl-pro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang" : "gem" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Medieval Latin", "term" : "Balthae", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "la-med" }, { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "is_duplicate" : true, "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "Balthae", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "Balticus", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "Baltic", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword" : "back-formation" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "Balt", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="Balt">, {{back-formation|en|Baltic}} Back-formation from Baltic, {{uder|en|la-med|-}} Medieval Latin, {{der|en|la-lat|Balthae}} Late Latin Balthae 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.
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  2. A native speaker of one of the Baltic languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian, Sudovian and related languages.
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  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)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Baltic, Baltica, Balto-Slavic, Balto-

Inflected forms

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      "ipa": "/bɒlt/",
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      "ipa": "/bɔːlt/",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
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      "word": "bàltica"
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      "word": "balter"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
      "word": "baltti"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "Balte"
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      "code": "ka",
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      "roman": "balṭi",
      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
      "word": "ბალტი"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "Balte"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Baltin"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
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      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
      "word": "balti"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "baltico"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "baltica"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "balter"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states",
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      "word": "baltar"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
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      "code": "es",
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      ],
      "word": "báltico"
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      "code": "cy",
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}

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