Where the Romanian word “baltă” comes from
From Old Slavic.
- DEX ’98 says
Probabil din sl. blato. Cf. alb. baltë.
→ Old Slavic · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Other languages (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Proto-Indo-European bʰel- ← Proto-Slavic bolto ← substrate
- In film dialogue
- 63 times per million words · number 1,106 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 38 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 106 55 41 72 35 - Swap in a synonym
- lac (Inherited Latin), abandona (French), diavol (Old Slavic), stagna (French), băltoacă (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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