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bloaz

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Breton

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Celtic cognates include Welsh blwydd, blwyddyn, Old Breton blened, Cornish bloodh, Old Irish blíadain.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bloaz m

  1. year

Mutation

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Mutation of bloaz
unmutated soft aspirate hard
singular bloaz vloaz unchanged ploaz
plural bloazioù vloazioù unchanged ploazioù

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
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