bloaz
Breton
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *bleidanī, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰloyd- (“pale”), though the semantic connection is weak.[1] See also Lithuanian blai̇̃vas (“whitish, blue, sober”), Proto-West Germanic *blait, Albanian blehurë.
Celtic cognates include Welsh blwydd, blwyddyn, Old Breton blened, Cornish bloodh, Old Irish blíadain.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bloaz m (plural bloazioù)
Mutation
[edit]| unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | bloaz | vloaz | unchanged | ploaz |
| plural | bloazioù | vloazioù | unchanged | ploazioù |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “bledani”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 69