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balss

Pronunciation: [bàls]

“balss” is a Latvian word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

  1. voice (sound produced by the human respiratory tract for speaking, singing, etc.)
  2. voice, intonation (how a person's voice sounds, expressing or revealing mental states)
  3. voice (someone who cannot be seen but can be heard)
  4. voice (metaphorical means of communicating feelings, mental states)
  5. voice (capacity for singing)
  6. voice (single melodic line)
  7. voice (sounds and calls produced by animals)
  8. voice (sound produced by natural phenomena or objects)
  9. voice (general thoughts, beliefs, of a group of people)
  10. voice (expression of a mental state)
  11. voice (capacity or opportunity to express one's opinion)
  12. vote (citizen's will, expressed in an election, a referendum)
  13. vote (opinion, to be counted, expressed in a debate or discussion)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *balsas, from the o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰol- (“to sound, to speak, to roar, to bark”), with an extra suffix -so (*bʰol-so-s). Cognates include Lithuanian bal̃sas, Russian болтать (boltatʹ, “to chat, to chatter”), dialectal балдить (balditʹ, “to often repeat the same thing”), Old High German bellan, German bellen (“to bark”), Middle Low German bulderen, German…

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