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Balt, n. and a.|bɔːlt|
[ad. late L. (Jordanes) Balthæ.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of one of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; spec. a German inhabitant of any of these states (see quot. 1937).
B. adj. Of or pertaining to (a person from one of) these states.
1878R. G. Latham in W. Smith Dict. Gr. & Rom. Geogr. 375/2 For a Balt, or an Amal, as real personages, we look in vain. Populations, however, to which they were Eponymi, we find in the two localities Baltia [Baltic] and Abalus. 1909Webster, Balts, Lithuanians, who, together with the Letts, were probably the æstii of Tacitus. 1922E. J. Harrison Lithuania iii. 37 The Lithuanians together with the Letts and Old Prussians form a family of Aestians or Balts. Ibid. iii. 39 To-day the ancient Balts are represented only by the Lithuanians and the Letts or Latvians. 1937Discovery Aug. 234/2 In 1918 the German baronial families were deprived of their estates... As late as 1918 the Baltic barons or ‘balts’ as they are always called, were planning to colonise Estonia with two and a half million small farmers from Germany. 1939Times 1 Nov. 7/1 The exchange of documents ratifying the repatriation of Balts from Latvia is expected to take place in Berlin to-morrow. 1954J. B. Priestley Magicians iii. 60 Wayland, it appeared, was part English, part Balt. |