blatzeg
Luxembourgish
Etymology
The original meaning is “blear, bleary-eyed”, from Blatz (“gound, sleepy dust”) and blatzen (“to be blear, goundy”). Related dialectal forms show that the -a- in these words is (regularly) derived from an underlying -i-. Blatzen might hence be a doublet of blécksen (“to blink”, the natural reaction to dry eyes), from Bléck (“look, glance”), older also Black, here with the native vocalism preserved and with -cks- → -tz-, a fairly common development in High German.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɑtseχ/, [ˈblɑt͡səɕ]
Adjective
blatzeg (masculine blatzegen, neuter blatzegt, comparative méi blatzeg, superlative am blatzegsten)
- bleary-eyed, blear, having gound in one’s eyes
- pale, wan
- drab
Declension
declension of blatzeg
| number and gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | hien ass blatzeg | si ass blatzeg | et ass blatzeg | si si(nn) blatzeg | |
| without article | nominative/accusative | blatzegen | blatzeg | blatzegt | blatzeg |
| dative | blatzegem | blatzeger | blatzegem | blatzegen | |
| with article | nominative/accusative | blatzegen | blatzeg | blatzegt | blatzeg |
| dative | blatzegen | blatzeger | blatzegen | blatzegen | |