bleán
See also: bléan
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish blegon, from Old Irish mlegon (“act of milking; yield of milk, milking”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bleán m (genitive singular as substantive bleáin, genitive as verbal noun blite, nominative plural)
Declension
Declension of bleán
First declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- bleánlann f (“milking parlour”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| bleán | bhleán | mbleán |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 42
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bleán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “blegon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 46
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