bòlto

bòlto Grammatical information: n. o Accent paradigm: a Proto-Slavic meaning: `swamp'

Page in Trubačev: II 179-182

Old Church Slavic:

blato `swamp, quagmire' [n o]

Russian:

bolóto `swamp' [n o]

Czech:

bláto `mud' [n o]

Polish:

bɫoto `mud' [n o]

Slovincian:

blùo̯to `swamp' [n o]

Upper Sorbian:

bɫóto `mud' [n o]

Serbo-Croatian:

blȁto `mud, swampy terrain' [n o];

Čak. blȁto (Vrgada) `mud, swampy terrain' [n o];

Čak. blȁto (Orbanići) `mud, dirt' [n o]

Slovene:

blátọ `mud, swamp' [n o]

Bulgarian:

bláto `mud, swamp' [n o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: bolʔto

Lithuanian:

báltas `white' [adj o] 3;

balà `swamp' [f ā] 3

Latvian:

bal̃ts `white' [adj o]

Old Prussian:

Namuynbalt [placename] \{1\}

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Comments: Both formally and semantically, *bòlto may derive from PIE *bʰelH- `white', cf. Pl. dial. biel, bielaw, Bel. bel' `swampy meadow' (ESSJa II: 180). PSl. *bolto is sometimes considered an "Illyrian" substratum word. In this connection not only the above-mentioned forms from the Balkan peninsula are adduced, but also Romance forms such as Lomb. palta, Piém. pauta.

Other cognates:

Alb. baltë `mud, swamp' [f];

MoGk. βάλτος `swamp' [f];

Rum. baltă `mud, swamp' [f] \{2\}

Notes:

\{1\} Cf. also the Rythabalt meadow and the placename Peusebalten. Namuynbalt is the equivalent of Namoyumpelk (pelk `swamp').