Belt

belt bèlt bełt English Etymology As an English and north/en nds - surname, from the noun en belt. As a en de - surname, short form of the old en gem - name en Baldher, composed of gmw-pro *balþ bold + gmw-pro *hari army. Compare en Belter. Also as a north/Low German surname, from the place name Beelte, a small town in Giesen. As a en nl - surname nl Van nl den nl Belt, from the noun nl belt low hill. Proper noun ~ en. en town co/Cascade County s/Montana c/US. en @ellipsis of:Main Asteroid Belt region starsystem/Solar System. en Bryan Enk Belter Creole 101 w:SYFY https://www.syfy.com/the-expanse/season-1/blogs/belter-creole-101 2016-01-15 Believe it or not, Belter slang — or, more officially, Belter Creole — isn't a completely made-up way of communicating. It's actually a mix of several Earth languages spoken by the original settlers in the Asteroid Belt colonies — very appropriate, as the Belt is a melting pot of several different races, customs and backgrounds. https://web.archive.org/web/20220415172436/https://www.syfy.com/the-expanse/season-1/blogs/belter-creole-101 Derived terms en Belter Beltian Beltian body Beltsville Anagrams en belt blet Dutch Etymology Attested as De Belt in 1839-1859. Derived from dialectal nl belt small hill, slightly elevated place. Pronunciation nl Belt Proper noun n nl hamlet mun/Hollands Kroon p/North Holland c/Netherlands References belt German Etymology From de da bælt, from de la Baltia, a mythological island described by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, of unclear origin. It bears no relation to da bælte belt, which is derived from la balteus belt, girdle and for which the German word is de Gürtel. Possibly instead related to de lt baltas white.bælt Pronunciation de /bɛlt/ de De-Belt.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de ɛlt 1 Noun m,(e)s de Denmark strait Declension m,(e)s Hypernyms de Meerenge Hyponyms de Großer Belt, de großer Belt de Kleiner Belt, de kleiner Belt Descendants pl bełt strait 1 References Further reading https://books.google.com/books?id=c53vDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History Mishkova Diana Trencsényi Balázs w:Balázs Trencsényi Berghahn Books 2017 2023-12-01 57 978-1-78533-585-3 de https://books.google.com/books?id=HPVlAAAAMAAJ&q=b%C3%A6lte Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Internationales Symposion Wrocław/Breslau 2003 Hałub Marek Schuster Kurt G. P. Verlag für Regionalgeschichte 2005 2023-12-01 253 3-89534-538-5 de Bodies of water Denmark de Straits Belt