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Where does “baltkrieviete” come from?

baltkrieviete (Latvian) comes from Latvian baltkrievs, from Latvian balts, from Proto-Balto-Slavic balt, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bal-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-.

baltkrieviete (Latvian): a Belarusian, a woman from Belarus or of...

Definitions

  1. a Belarusian, a woman from Belarus or of...

Ancestry of “baltkrieviete”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latvianbaltkrievsa Belarusian, a Belarusian man, a man from...
2Latvianbaltswhite; clean; counterrevolutionary, member of the...
3Proto-Balto-Slavicbaltto become white
4Proto-Balto-Slavic*bal-—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-—
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