Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *balþazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_balþaz
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*bʰel-to blow, swell up
adja-stemstrong, boldFrom pre-Germanic *bʰól-t-ó-s (‘inflated, strong’), from an o-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (in either the, ‘blow, swell, inflate; sense or the ‘shiny, white’ sense, with the former being semantically more attractive’) + *-tos(creates verbal adjectives from roots), the suffix equivalent to Proto-Germanic *-þaz (derives adjectives from roots).