blæja
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplaiːja/
- Rhymes: -aiːja
Etymology 1
From Old Norse blæja, blægja, from Proto-Germanic *blahjǭ (“cloth”), further etymology unknown; possibly Proto-Indo-European *bʰlek- and related to Latin floccus.[1]
Related to German Plane and its Swiss doublet Blache (“tarpaulin”).[2]
Declension
Derived terms
- blæjubíll
References
- Szemerenyi, Scripta minora: selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin, Volume 2, p. 714
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “Blahjōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Norwegian Nynorsk
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