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Where does “balet” come from?

balet (Latin) comes from Latin balo, from Proto-Indo-European bē-.

balet (Latin): third-person singular present active subjunctive...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive...

Ancestry of “balet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinbaloI bleat, baa; I talk foolishly
2Proto-Indo-Europeanbē-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bē- →