blíadain

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bleidanī (“year”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale”), though the semantic connection is weak.[1] See also Lithuanian blaĩvas (“whitish, blue, sober”), Proto-West Germanic *blait, Albanian blehurë.

Celtic cognates include Cornish blydhen, Breton blizen, Welsh blwyddyn.

Pronunciation

Noun

blíadain f (genitive blíadnae, nominative plural blíadnai)

  1. year

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative blíadainL blíadainL blíadnaiH
Vocative blíadainL blíadainL blíadnaiH
Accusative blíadnaiN blíadainL blíadnaiH
Genitive blíadnaeH blíadnaeL blíadnaeN
Dative blíadnaiL, blíadain blíadnaib blíadnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: bliain
  • Manx: blein
  • Scottish Gaelic: bliadhna

Mutation

Mutation of blíadain
radical lenition nasalization
blíadain blíadain
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ 		mblíadain

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “bledani”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 69

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