bléin

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish bléin, from Old Irish mleen.

Pronunciation

Noun

bléin f (genitive singular bléine or bléineach, nominative plural bléinte)

  1. groin (long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs)

Declension

Declension of bléin (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative bléin bléinte
vocative a bhléin a bhléinte
genitive bléine bléinte
dative bléin bléinte
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bhléin na bléinte
genitive na bléine na mbléinte
dative leis an mbléin
don bhléin 		leis na bléinte

Mutation

Mutated forms of bléin
radical lenition eclipsis
bléin bhléin mbléin

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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