--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
> Somehow "balteus" jars in my ear with respect to being a native
Latin
> root?
>
It's out of my competence to comment an English etymological
dictionary. (A self correction before Piotr attacks me: OHG baltz,
not belt). Germanic or not, it's not relevant to the point I
addressed in my answer: Germanic, Baltic and Slavic roots can
peacefully coexist not being borrowed or even not having a common
ancestor.
Sergei