bledhen

Cornish

Alternative forms
  • blydhen

Etymology

From Old Cornish bliþen, from Proto-Celtic *blēdanī (“year”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰloyd- (“pale”), though the semantic connection is weak.[1] See also Lithuanian blaĩvas (“whitish, blue, sober”), Proto-West Germanic *blait, Albanian blehurë.

Celtic cognates include Welsh blwydd, Breton blizenn, Old Irish blíadain, Cornish bloth, Breton bloaz; Old Breton blened, Welsh blynedd.

Noun

bledhen f (plural bledhynnyow or bledhennyow)

  1. year

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “bledani”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 69
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