bliadhna

Irish

bliadhna

Mutated forms of *bliadhna*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
bliadhna	bhliadhna	mbliadhna

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

bliadhna f (genitive singular bliadhna, plural bliadhnaichean or bliadhnachan)

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.

am bliadhna (“this year”)
an ath bhliadhna (“next (following) year”)
an-ath-bhliadhna (“next year (after this one)”)
a’ Bhliadhna Ùr (“New Year”)
Bliadhna a' Chnàmha (“Year of the Potato Blight in 1846”)
bliadhna fhiosgail (“fiscal year”)
bliadhna ionmhais (“financial year”)
Bliadhna Mhath Ùr (“Happy New Year”)
bliadhna mìosachain (“calendar year”)
Bliadhna nan Caorach (“Year of the Sheep, a particularly devastating Highland clearance in 1792”)
bliadhna rannsachaidh (“sabbatical”)
Bliadhna Theàrlaich (“Jacobite Rising in 1745”)
Bliadhna Ùr nan Sìneach (“Chinese New Year”)
bliadhna-leum (“leap year”)
bliadhna-sholais (“lightyear”)
bliadhnail (“annual, yearly”, adjective)
cuimhneachan nan ceud bliadhna (“centenary”)
cuirm-bhliadhnail (“anniversary”)
dà bhliadhnail (“biennial”, adjective)
fèill-bhliadhna (“anniversary”)
gach bliadhna (“annually, every year”, adverb)
Là na Bliadhna Ùire (“New Year’s Day”)
leabhar-bliadhna (“yearbook”)
pòsadh-bliadhna (“handfasting, left-hand marriage”)

Mutation of *bliadhna*
radical	lenition
bliadhna	bhliadhna

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

Edward Dwelly (1911) “bliadhna”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 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