Balto-Slav

noun

A speaker of a Balto-Slavic language or dialect.

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Meanings

nounBalto-Slav (plural Balto-Slavs)

plural Balto-Slavs

  1. A speaker of a Balto-Slavic language or dialect.

    AGNI ("Fire") was one of the great original deities of the Rigveda, just as fire was a principal divinity of other Indo-European peoples — Iranians, Greeks, Latins and Balto-Slavs.

    2003, Walter Addison Jayne, Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations, Kessinger Publishing, page 161

Origin

From Balto- + Slav.

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Translations

Hungarian balti-szláv
  • balti-szlávspeaker of a Balto-Slavic language or dialect, member of the Balto-Slavic linguistic or cultural community
Polish Bałtosłowianin, Bałtosłowianka
  • Bałtosłowianinspeaker of a Balto-Slavic language or dialect, member of the Balto-Slavic linguistic or cultural community
  • Bałtosłowiankaspeaker of a Balto-Slavic language or dialect, member of the Balto-Slavic linguistic or cultural community
Cite this entry
APA

Balto-Slav. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Balto-Slav

MLA

“Balto-Slav.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Balto-Slav. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Balto-Slav,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Balto-Slav.

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