bledhen

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Cornish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Cornish bliþen, from Proto-Celtic *bleidanī (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

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bledhen f (plural bledhynnyow or bledhennyow)

  1. year

References

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