bolts
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəʊlts/
- (General American) IPA(key): /boʊlts/
Latgalian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bolʔto/*baltan from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰol- (“shiny, white”). Cognates include Latvian balts, Lithuanian báltas, Sudovian baltas. 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).
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