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Irish
Noun
bliadhna
- Obsolete spelling of bliana.
Mutation
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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish blíadain, from Proto-Celtic *bleidanī (“year”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bliadhna f (genitive singular bliadhna, plural bliadhnaichean or bliadhnachan)
- year
- eadar seo agus ceann bliadhna ― within a year
- an ceann bliadhna ― in a year's time
- Bliadhn' a' Phrionnsa ― the 1745-46 Jacobite uprising (literally, “the Year of the Prince”)
- am bliadhna ― this year
Usage notes
- Used in the singular after numerals:
- Bha sinn na bliadhnaichean ann. ― We were there for years.
- Bha sinn ochd bliadhna ann. ― We were there eight years.
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “bliadhna”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bliadain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap