bleán

See also: bléan

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish blegon, from Old Irish mlegon (“act of milking; yield of milk, milking”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

bleán m (genitive singular as substantive bleáin, genitive as verbal noun blite, nominative plural)

  1. verbal noun of bligh
  2. milk yield
    Synonyms: bleacht, bleánach, crúthach, lacht, táirgeacht, tál
  3. milking
    Synonym: crú

Declension

Declension of bleán (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative bleán
vocative a bhleáin
genitive bleáin
dative bleán
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an bleán
genitive an bhleáin
dative leis an mbleán
don bhleán

Derived terms

  • bleánlann f (“milking parlour”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bleán
radical lenition eclipsis
bleán bhleán mbleán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “bleán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “blegon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 46
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 42

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “bleaġaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 102; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bleán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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