balt

From Middle High German walt, from Old High German wald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz. Cognate with German Wald, English wold.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalt/^[1]

balt m (plural bèllar, diminutive bèllale)

1. (Sette Comuni, Luserna) woods, forest

   Dar balt rüstet de perghe un ghit herbighe in bögallen. ― The forest covers the mountains and shelters the birds.

• dorbèllaran

• “balt” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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balt

1. inflection of ballen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

bal (“left [one]”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒlt]
• Rhymes: -ɒlt

balt

1. accusative singular of bal

Borrowed from Latin balteus (“belt”).

balt m (genitive singular built, plural baltan)

1. welt (of a shoe)
2. border, belt
3. selvage (of cloth)
4. moustache

   Synonyms: mustais, stais, feusag-bheòil, ròibeag, réibean, ròibean, caisean-feusaig

5. (Arran) man's collar

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “balt”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN

From Late Latin Balthae; see Balt.

balt c

1. Balt (native of the Baltic states, chiefly male)