"balts" meaning in Latvian

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Adjective

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Etymology: From an unattested verb *balt (“to become white”) (of which balts originally was the past participle form; compare Lithuanian bálti, and Latvian 17th-century derived verb baltīt (“to make, paint something white”), later replaced by other verbs, derived from balts: from Proto-Baltic *bal-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰol- (“shiny, white”). Cognates include Lithuanian báltas, Sudovian bałtas. In several Indo-European languages, reflexes of the stem *bʰel-, *bʰol- are often found in words relating to water or humid places, probably due to their shiny, reflective surfaces: Illyrian *balta (“marsh, swamp”), Albanian baltë (“mud, sludge, swamp”), Proto-Slavic *bolto (“swamp, lake”) (Old Church Slavonic блато (blato, “lake”), Russian болото (boloto, “marsh, swamp”) (dialectal “puddle, lake”), Czech bláto (“mud; pl. swamp”), Polish błoto (“mud, swamp”)). This usage is also attested in Baltic languages, as in, e.g., Old Prussian placename Namuynbalt (swamp). It left also traces in Latvian, in the names of lakes or swamps (Baltenis, Baltiņa purvs), and is a possible source of the word balti (“Balts, Baltic”). Etymology templates: {{m|ine-bsl-pro|*balt||to become white}} *balt (“to become white”), {{m|lv|balts}} balts, {{cog|lt|bálti}} Lithuanian bálti, {{m|lv|baltīt||to make, paint something white}} baltīt (“to make, paint something white”), {{m|lv|balts}} balts, {{der|lv|bat-pro|-}} Proto-Baltic, {{m|ine-bsl-pro|*bal-}} *bal-, {{der|lv|ine-pro|*bʰel-}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, {{m|ine-pro|*bʰol-||shiny, white}} *bʰol- (“shiny, white”), {{cog|lt|báltas}} Lithuanian báltas, {{cog|xsv|bałtas}} Sudovian bałtas, {{m|ine-pro|*bʰel-}} *bʰel-, {{m|ine-pro|*bʰol-}} *bʰol-, {{cog|xil|*balta}} Illyrian *balta, {{cog|sq|baltë||mud, sludge, swamp}} Albanian baltë (“mud, sludge, swamp”), {{m|sla-pro|*bolto||swamp, lake}} *bolto (“swamp, lake”), {{cog|cu|блато||lake}} Old Church Slavonic блато (blato, “lake”), {{cog|ru|болото||marsh, swamp}} Russian болото (boloto, “marsh, swamp”), {{cog|cs|bláto||mud; pl. swamp}} Czech bláto (“mud; pl. swamp”), {{cog|pl|błoto||mud, swamp}} Polish błoto (“mud, swamp”), {{cog|prg|-}} Old Prussian, {{m|prg|Namuynbalt}} Namuynbalt, {{m|lv|balti||Balts, Baltic}} balti (“Balts, Baltic”) Head templates: {{head|lv|adjective|||definite|baltais|comparative|baltāks|superlative|visbaltākais|adverb|balti|cat2=|cat3=}} balts (definite baltais, comparative baltāks, superlative visbaltākais, adverb balti), {{lv-adj|balt}} balts (definite baltais, comparative baltāks, superlative visbaltākais, adverb balti) Inflection templates: {{lv-decl-adj|balt|extrawidth=-100}} Forms: baltais [definite], baltāks [comparative], visbaltākais [superlative], balti [adverb], no-table-tags [table-tags], balts [indefinite, masculine, nominative, singular], balti [indefinite, masculine, nominative, plural], balta [feminine, indefinite, nominative, singular], baltas [feminine, indefinite, nominative, plural], baltu [accusative, indefinite, masculine, singular], baltus [accusative, indefinite, masculine, plural], baltu [accusative, feminine, indefinite, singular], baltas [accusative, feminine, indefinite, plural], balta [genitive, indefinite, masculine, singular], baltu [genitive, indefinite, masculine, plural], baltas [feminine, genitive, indefinite, singular], baltu [feminine, genitive, indefinite, plural], baltam [dative, indefinite, masculine, singular], baltiem [dative, indefinite, masculine, plural], baltai [dative, feminine, indefinite, singular], baltām [dative, feminine, indefinite, plural], baltu [indefinite, instrumental, masculine, singular], baltiem [indefinite, instrumental, masculine, plural], baltu [feminine, indefinite, instrumental, singular], baltām [feminine, indefinite, instrumental, plural], baltā [indefinite, locative, masculine, singular], baltos [indefinite, locative, masculine, plural], baltā [feminine, indefinite, locative, singular], baltās [feminine, indefinite, locative, plural], - [indefinite, masculine, singular, vocative], - [indefinite, masculine, plural, vocative], - [feminine, indefinite, singular, vocative], - [feminine, indefinite, plural, vocative]
  1. white (having the color of, e.g., snow or milk)
    Sense id: en-balts-lv-adj-CTJYNcIx Categories (other): Latvian words with level intonation Disambiguation of Latvian words with level intonation: 13 8 33 5 41
  2. white (light, not dark; without color; gray) Categories (topical): Whites
    Sense id: en-balts-lv-adj-Nv2Nw~bf Disambiguation of Whites: 11 29 10 0 10 18 10 12
  3. white (a member of the Caucasian race)
    Sense id: en-balts-lv-adj-Mgr~KhVp Categories (other): Latvian words with level intonation Disambiguation of Latvian words with level intonation: 13 8 33 5 41
  4. (usually clothes) clean
    Sense id: en-balts-lv-adj-OwZoBPbR
  5. (Russian civil war) counterrevolutionary, member of the white guard
    Sense id: en-balts-lv-adj-r79QgBik Categories (other): Latvian words with level intonation Disambiguation of Latvian words with level intonation: 13 8 33 5 41
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: baltais lācis, baltais punduris, baltmaize, balta maize, baltums, iebalts, sniegbalts
Etymology number: 1 Related terms: baltiņš, pelēks, melns, sarkans, sārts, oranžs, brūns, dzeltens, zaļš, zilzaļš, ciāns, zils, violets, zilganviolets, indigo, fuksīns, rozā

Noun

Etymology: The mainstream opinion on this word is that it comes from old uses of the stem balts (“white”) (q.v.) in names of places containing water, giving rise to the name of the Baltic Sea (already Latin Mare Balticum); it is possible that *balt- in Old Prussian placenames referred originally to the sea or coastal area. Another suggestion is that Latin Mare Balticum is to be derived from Old Norse balti, Danish balte, from Latin balteum (“belt”) (whence German Belt (“sea strait”)), perhaps because of this sea's narrowness, or because of the many islands and straits between islands and the continent. Etymology templates: {{m|lv|balts||white}} balts (“white”), {{cog|la|Mare Balticum}} Latin Mare Balticum, {{m|ine-bsl-pro|*balt-}} *balt-, {{cog|prg|-}} Old Prussian, {{cog|la|Mare Balticum}} Latin Mare Balticum, {{der|lv|non|balti}} Old Norse balti, {{cog|da|balte}} Danish balte, {{der|lv|la|balteum||belt}} Latin balteum (“belt”), {{cog|de|Belt||sea strait}} German Belt (“sea strait”) Head templates: {{head|lv|noun|g=m|g2=|head=|sort=}} balts m, {{lv-noun|m|1s}} balts m (1s declension) Inflection templates: {{lv-decl-noun|balt|s|1st|extrawidth=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-1|balt|s|4=|5=|6=|7=|8=|drop-v=|keep-s=|x=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-table|balts|balti|baltu|baltus|balta|baltu|baltam|baltiem|baltu|baltiem|baltā|baltos|balt|balti|type=1st declension|x=-60}} Forms: declension-1 [table-tags], balts [nominative, singular], balti [nominative, plural], baltu [accusative, singular], baltus [accusative, plural], balta [genitive, singular], baltu [genitive, plural], baltam [dative, singular], baltiem [dative, plural], baltu [instrumental, singular], baltiem [instrumental, plural], baltā [locative, singular], baltos [locative, plural], balt [singular, vocative], balti [plural, vocative]
  1. Balt, a Baltic person, someone from the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-balts-lv-noun-2MEURXI6 Categories (other): Latvian entries with incorrect language header, Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup, Latvian etymologies from LEV, Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Pages with raw sortkeys Disambiguation of Latvian entries with incorrect language header: 1 1 2 0 4 29 33 29 Disambiguation of Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 1 2 0 4 30 35 25 Disambiguation of Latvian etymologies from LEV: 1 2 3 1 5 31 37 21 Disambiguation of Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 1 2 2 1 4 30 34 26 Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 4 4 4 1 3 28 26 30
  2. (chiefly in the plural) the Balts (Latvians, Lithuanians, and other related people; the Indo-European people from which Latvians and Lithuanians descend) Tags: in-plural, masculine
    Sense id: en-balts-lv-noun-p-EESkQz Categories (other): Latvian entries with incorrect language header, Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup, Latvian etymologies from LEV, Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Pages with raw sortkeys Disambiguation of Latvian entries with incorrect language header: 1 1 2 0 4 29 33 29 Disambiguation of Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 1 2 0 4 30 35 25 Disambiguation of Latvian etymologies from LEV: 1 2 3 1 5 31 37 21 Disambiguation of Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 1 2 2 1 4 30 34 26 Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 4 4 4 1 3 28 26 30
  3. (genitive plural) Baltic, pertaining to the Baltic states and their people; pertaining to the ancient Balts Tags: genitive, masculine, plural
    Sense id: en-balts-lv-noun-C2IdQH9K Categories (other): Latvian entries with incorrect language header, Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup, Latvian etymologies from LEV, Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Pages with raw sortkeys Disambiguation of Latvian entries with incorrect language header: 1 1 2 0 4 29 33 29 Disambiguation of Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 1 2 0 4 30 35 25 Disambiguation of Latvian etymologies from LEV: 1 2 3 1 5 31 37 21 Disambiguation of Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 1 2 2 1 4 30 34 26 Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 4 4 4 1 3 28 26 30
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Baltija
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "melns"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baltais lācis"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baltais punduris"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baltmaize"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "balta maize"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "baltums"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "iebalts"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "sniegbalts"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "2": "*balt",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to become white"
      },
      "expansion": "*balt (“to become white”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "balts"
      },
      "expansion": "balts",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lt",
        "2": "bálti"
      },
      "expansion": "Lithuanian bálti",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "baltīt",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to make, paint something white"
      },
      "expansion": "baltīt (“to make, paint something white”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "balts"
      },
      "expansion": "balts",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "bat-pro",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Baltic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "2": "*bal-"
      },
      "expansion": "*bal-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*bʰel-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*bʰol-",
        "3": "",
        "4": "shiny, white"
      },
      "expansion": "*bʰol- (“shiny, white”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lt",
        "2": "báltas"
      },
      "expansion": "Lithuanian báltas",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xsv",
        "2": "bałtas"
      },
      "expansion": "Sudovian bałtas",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*bʰel-"
      },
      "expansion": "*bʰel-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*bʰol-"
      },
      "expansion": "*bʰol-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xil",
        "2": "*balta"
      },
      "expansion": "Illyrian *balta",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "baltë",
        "3": "",
        "4": "mud, sludge, swamp"
      },
      "expansion": "Albanian baltë (“mud, sludge, swamp”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sla-pro",
        "2": "*bolto",
        "3": "",
        "4": "swamp, lake"
      },
      "expansion": "*bolto (“swamp, lake”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cu",
        "2": "блато",
        "3": "",
        "4": "lake"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Church Slavonic блато (blato, “lake”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "болото",
        "3": "",
        "4": "marsh, swamp"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian болото (boloto, “marsh, swamp”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cs",
        "2": "bláto",
        "3": "",
        "4": "mud; pl. swamp"
      },
      "expansion": "Czech bláto (“mud; pl. swamp”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pl",
        "2": "błoto",
        "3": "",
        "4": "mud, swamp"
      },
      "expansion": "Polish błoto (“mud, swamp”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "prg",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Prussian",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "prg",
        "2": "Namuynbalt"
      },
      "expansion": "Namuynbalt",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "balti",
        "3": "",
        "4": "Balts, Baltic"
      },
      "expansion": "balti (“Balts, Baltic”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From an unattested verb *balt (“to become white”) (of which balts originally was the past participle form; compare Lithuanian bálti, and Latvian 17th-century derived verb baltīt (“to make, paint something white”), later replaced by other verbs, derived from balts: from Proto-Baltic *bal-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰol- (“shiny, white”). Cognates include Lithuanian báltas, Sudovian bałtas. In several Indo-European languages, reflexes of the stem *bʰel-, *bʰol- are often found in words relating to water or humid places, probably due to their shiny, reflective surfaces: Illyrian *balta (“marsh, swamp”), Albanian baltë (“mud, sludge, swamp”), Proto-Slavic *bolto (“swamp, lake”) (Old Church Slavonic блато (blato, “lake”), Russian болото (boloto, “marsh, swamp”) (dialectal “puddle, lake”), Czech bláto (“mud; pl. swamp”), Polish błoto (“mud, swamp”)). This usage is also attested in Baltic languages, as in, e.g., Old Prussian placename Namuynbalt (swamp). It left also traces in Latvian, in the names of lakes or swamps (Baltenis, Baltiņa purvs), and is a possible source of the word balti (“Balts, Baltic”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "baltais",
      "tags": [
        "definite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltāks",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "visbaltākais",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balti",
      "tags": [
        "adverb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lv-decl-adj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balts",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balti",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltiem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltai",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltiem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "locative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "locative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "10": "visbaltākais",
        "11": "adverb",
        "12": "balti",
        "2": "adjective",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "definite",
        "6": "baltais",
        "7": "comparative",
        "8": "baltāks",
        "9": "superlative",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "balts (definite baltais, comparative baltāks, superlative visbaltākais, adverb balti)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "balt"
      },
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          "type": "example"
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          "english": "white as snow, chalk, milk, bone",
          "text": "balts kā sniegs, krīts, piens, kauls",
          "type": "example"
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        {
          "english": "an animal with white fur, feathers",
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          "type": "example"
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          "english": "white hare",
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          "type": "example"
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          "type": "example"
        },
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          "english": "the (American) White House",
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          "english": "white wine",
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}
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      "word": "baltais punduris"
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      "word": "balta maize"
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        "2": "baltë",
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      "name": "cog"
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        "3": "",
        "4": "lake"
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        "2": "bláto",
        "3": "",
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        "2": "błoto",
        "3": "",
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        "3": "",
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        "singular"
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        "indefinite",
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        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
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    {
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      "source": "declension",
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        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "baltas",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "balta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltas",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "baltam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "baltiem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "baltai",
      "source": "declension",
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        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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      "form": "baltām",
      "source": "declension",
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        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "baltiem",
      "source": "declension",
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        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
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      "form": "baltu",
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        "indefinite",
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
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      "form": "baltām",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "form": "baltā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "locative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "baltos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "locative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "indefinite",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
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        "4": "",
        "5": "definite",
        "6": "baltais",
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        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": ""
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      "word": "baltiņš"
    },
    {
      "word": "pelēks"
    },
    {
      "word": "melns"
    },
    {
      "word": "sarkans"
    },
    {
      "word": "sārts"
    },
    {
      "word": "oranžs"
    },
    {
      "word": "brūns"
    },
    {
      "word": "dzeltens"
    },
    {
      "word": "zaļš"
    },
    {
      "word": "zilzaļš"
    },
    {
      "word": "ciāns"
    },
    {
      "word": "zils"
    },
    {
      "word": "violets"
    },
    {
      "word": "zilganviolets"
    },
    {
      "word": "indigo"
    },
    {
      "word": "fuksīns"
    },
    {
      "word": "rozā"
    }
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      "categories": [
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "white paper",
          "text": "balts papīrs",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "white as snow, chalk, milk, bone",
          "text": "balts kā sniegs, krīts, piens, kauls",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "an animal with white fur, feathers",
          "text": "dzīvnieks ar baltu spalvu",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "white hare",
          "text": "baltais zaķis",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "to paint the door white",
          "text": "nokrāsot durvis baltas",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "white coffee (i.e., with milk or cream)",
          "text": "balta kafija",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "the (American) White House",
          "text": "Baltais nams",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "white flag (= symbol of peace, truce)",
          "text": "baltais karogs",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "white (having the color of, e.g., snow or milk)"
      ],
      "links": [
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          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "color",
          "color#English"
        ],
        [
          "snow",
          "snow#English"
        ],
        [
          "milk",
          "milk#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latvian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "white nights (polar nights in summer, without darkness)",
          "text": "baltās naktis",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "white (blood) cells",
          "text": "baltie asinsķermenīši",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "white wine",
          "text": "baltais vīns",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "white beard",
          "text": "balta bārda",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "head white as an apple tree (= gray hair)",
          "text": "galva balta kā ābele",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "white (light, not dark; without color; gray)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light#English"
        ],
        [
          "dark",
          "dark#English"
        ],
        [
          "color",
          "color#English"
        ],
        [
          "gray",
          "gray#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latvian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "white (= Caucasian) race",
          "text": "baltā rase",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "white colonizers, settlers",
          "text": "baltie kolonizatori",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "white (a member of the Caucasian race)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "member",
          "member#English"
        ],
        [
          "Caucasian",
          "Caucasian#English"
        ],
        [
          "race",
          "race#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latvian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "to wear white linen (= clean clothes) on Saturday",
          "text": "uzvilkt sestdienā baltu veļu",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "clean"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clothes",
          "clothes"
        ],
        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "usually clothes",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(usually clothes) clean"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latvian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "the white army, white troops",
          "text": "balto armija, balto karaspēks",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "a white attack",
          "text": "balto uzbrukums",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "counterrevolutionary, member of the white guard"
      ],
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        [
          "counterrevolutionary",
          "counterrevolutionary"
        ],
        [
          "member",
          "member"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "guard",
          "guard"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Russian civil war",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Russian civil war) counterrevolutionary, member of the white guard"
      ]
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}

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    "Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "Latvian etymologies from LEV",
    "Latvian first declension nouns",
    "Latvian lemmas",
    "Latvian masculine nouns",
    "Latvian nouns",
    "Latvian terms derived from Latin",
    "Latvian terms derived from Old Norse",
    "Latvian terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Pages with raw sortkeys",
    "lv:Whites"
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    {
      "word": "Baltija"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "balts",
        "3": "",
        "4": "white"
      },
      "expansion": "balts (“white”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Mare Balticum"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Mare Balticum",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-bsl-pro",
        "2": "*balt-"
      },
      "expansion": "*balt-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Prussian",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "Mare Balticum"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin Mare Balticum",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "balti"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse balti",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "balte"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish balte",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lv",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "balteum",
        "4": "",
        "5": "belt"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin balteum (“belt”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Belt",
        "3": "",
        "4": "sea strait"
      },
      "expansion": "German Belt (“sea strait”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The mainstream opinion on this word is that it comes from old uses of the stem balts (“white”) (q.v.) in names of places containing water, giving rise to the name of the Baltic Sea (already Latin Mare Balticum); it is possible that *balt- in Old Prussian placenames referred originally to the sea or coastal area. Another suggestion is that Latin Mare Balticum is to be derived from Old Norse balti, Danish balte, from Latin balteum (“belt”) (whence German Belt (“sea strait”)), perhaps because of this sea's narrowness, or because of the many islands and straits between islands and the continent.",
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      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
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      "form": "1st declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balts",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balti",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balta",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltiem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltiem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "baltos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balt",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "balti",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "lv",
        "2": "noun",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "balts m",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "1s"
      },
      "expansion": "balts m (1s declension)",
      "name": "lv-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "balt",
        "2": "s",
        "3": "1st",
        "extrawidth": "-60"
      },
      "name": "lv-decl-noun"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "balt",
        "2": "s",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "drop-v": "",
        "keep-s": "",
        "x": "-60"
      },
      "name": "lv-decl-noun-1"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "balts",
        "10": "baltiem",
        "11": "baltā",
        "12": "baltos",
        "13": "balt",
        "14": "balti",
        "2": "balti",
        "3": "baltu",
        "4": "baltus",
        "5": "balta",
        "6": "baltu",
        "7": "baltam",
        "8": "baltiem",
        "9": "baltu",
        "type": "1st declension",
        "x": "-60"
      },
      "name": "lv-decl-noun-table"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latvian",
  "lang_code": "lv",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Balt, a Baltic person, someone from the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Balt",
          "Balt"
        ],
        [
          "Baltic",
          "Baltic"
        ],
        [
          "states",
          "states"
        ],
        [
          "Lithuania",
          "Lithuania"
        ],
        [
          "Latvia",
          "Latvia"
        ],
        [
          "Estonia",
          "Estonia"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the Balts (Latvians, Lithuanians, and other related people; the Indo-European people from which Latvians and Lithuanians descend)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Balts",
          "Balts"
        ],
        [
          "Latvian",
          "Latvian#English"
        ],
        [
          "Lithuanian",
          "Lithuanian#English"
        ],
        [
          "Indo-European",
          "Indo-European#English"
        ],
        [
          "Lithuanians",
          "Lithuanians#English"
        ],
        [
          "descend",
          "descend#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly in the plural) the Balts (Latvians, Lithuanians, and other related people; the Indo-European people from which Latvians and Lithuanians descend)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "in-plural",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latvian terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "the Baltic peoples",
          "text": "baltu tautas",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "the Baltic languages",
          "text": "baltu valodas",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Baltic linguistics",
          "text": "baltu valodniecība",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Baltic, pertaining to the Baltic states and their people; pertaining to the ancient Balts"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Baltic",
          "Baltic"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "Balt",
          "Balt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(genitive plural) Baltic, pertaining to the Baltic states and their people; pertaining to the ancient Balts"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "lv:balti"
  ],
  "word": "balts"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: 1s declension",
  "path": [
    "balts"
  ],
  "section": "Latvian",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "balts",
  "trace": ""
}

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