blaen

Welsh

Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw”).[1]

Pronunciation

(North Wales) IPA^(key): /blaːɨ̯n/
(South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /blai̯n/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /blaːn/
Rhymes: -aːɨ̯n

Noun

blaen m (plural blaenau)

tip, point, apex
front
foremost, first, leader
(usually in the plural) frontier, march, border; uplands, highlands

Derived terms

blaeneuwr (“highlander”)
blaenor (“elder”)
o flaen (“in front of”)
o'r blaen (“before, beforehand”)
ymlaen (“forward, ahead, on”)

Adjective

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front, foremost, anterior

Mutation

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References

Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 215 iii (10)

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