Where does “baltă” come from?

baltă (Romanian) comes from Albanian baltë, from Proto-Albanian baltā, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolHto-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-.

baltă (Romanian): puddle, pond, pool (especially muddy); also swamp

Definitions

  1. puddle, pond, pool (especially muddy); also swamp

Ancestry of “baltă”, step by step

baltă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Albanian baltë

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Albanianbaltëmud, sludge
2Proto-Albanianbaltāmarsh
3Proto-Indo-EuropeanbʰolHto-white > marsh
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-—

via Proto-Slavic bolto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicboltoswamp; mud
2Proto-Balto-Slavicbalta—

Words derived from “baltă”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰel- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰolHto- →
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