英语词汇baltic sea的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	baltic sea
词源	Baltic Sea. This body of water is named for either the Lithua- nian baltas, “white,” or from the Scandinavian balta, “strait.” Thus, no one knows for sure whether the Baltic means “the white sea,” or “the sea of straits.”
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