blíadain
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *blēdanī (“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
- IPA(key): [ˈbʲlʲiːa̯ðɨnʲ]
Noun
blíadain f (genitive blíadnae, nominative plural blíadnai)
- 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:
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Descendants
- Irish: bliain
- Manx: blein
- Scottish Gaelic: bliadhna
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| blíadain | blíadain pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ | mblíadain |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “bledani”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 69
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bliadain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language