Etymology

Balt

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

English Balticbf. ← Latin Balticus ← Medieval Latin Balthae plbf.
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  1. Proto-Balto-Slavic*bálˀtasbor.?
  2. Medieval LatinBalthae plbf.
  3. LatinBalthae
  4. LatinBalticus
  5. EnglishBalticbf.
  6. English todayBalt

Back-formation from Baltic and/or Medieval Latin and Late Latin Balthae; see Baltic for more.

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