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Balticisms

Balticisms is the plural of Balticism.

Meaning of Balticism

Noun

Balticism (plural Balticisms)

  1. A word or other feature originating in a Baltic language that has been borrowed by another language, usually a Slavic or a Finnic one.
    • There are some old Balticisms though they are difficult to differentiate from Lithuanian.1996, Zigmas Zinkevičius, The History of the Lithuanian Language, page 52

Questions about Balticisms

What is Balticisms the plural of?
Balticisms is the plural of Balticism.

Words near Balticisms in the dictionary

  1. Baltic Sea
  2. Baltic-Finnic
  3. Baltica
  4. Baltican
  5. Balticism
  6. Balticisms
  7. Balticist
  8. Balticists
  9. Balticness
  10. Baltics
  11. Baltid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Balticisms (page history and authors); Balticism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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