bloaz

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *blēdanī, 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, blwyddyn, Old Breton blened, Cornish bloodh, Old Irish blíadain.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈblwɑː/, /ˈblwɑːs/
  • (Gwened) IPA(key): /ˈbleː/

Noun

bloaz m (Vannes dialect, blé m)

  1. year

Inflection
  Mutation of bloaz  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehard
singular bloaz vloaz unchanged ploaz
plural bloazioù vloazioù unchanged ploazioù

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