блаватъ

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• блова́тъ (blovát)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Polish bławat, from Middle High German blāvar, from blā, from Old High German blāo, from Proto-West Germanic *blāu, from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz. First attested in the late 1500s.

Noun

блаватъ • (blavat) m (genitive блава́ту, related adjective блава́тный or блава́тъный)

1. a kind of blue silk fabric

Descendants

• Ukrainian: блава́т (blavát); блавит (blavyt), блевіт (blevit), глават (hlavat) (dialectal)
  • ⇒ Ukrainian: блавата́с (blavatás), блава́тус (blavátus)
  • ⇒ Ukrainian: бла́ватень (blávatenʹ), блаватинь (blavatynʹ)

Further reading

• Tymchenko, E. K., editor (1930), “блаватъ”, in Історичний словник українського язика [Historical Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, number 1 (А – Г), Kharkiv, Kyiv: State Publishing House of Ukraine, page 94
• Zhurawski, A. I., editor (1983), “блаватъ, бловатъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 2 (биецъ – варивный), Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika, page 21
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1994), “блаватъ”, in Словник української мови XVI – 1-ї пол. XVII ст. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language of 16ᵗʰ – 1ˢᵗ half of 17ᵗʰ c.] (in Ukrainian), numbers 2 (б – богуславецъ), Lviv: KIUS, →ISBN, page 92
• Tymchenko, E. K. (2002) “блаватъ”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Н), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 55