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blæja

Icelandic edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse blæja, blægja, from Proto-Germanic *blahjǭ (“cloth”), further etymology unknown; possibly Proto-Indo-European *bʰlek- and related to Latin floccus.[1]

Related to German Plane and its Swiss doublet Blache (“tarpaulin”).[2]

Noun edit

blæja f (genitive singular blæju, nominative plural blæjur)

  1. veil
Declension edit
declension of blæja
f-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative blæja blæjan blæjur blæjurnar
accusative blæju blæjuna blæjur blæjurnar
dative blæju blæjunni blæjum blæjunum
genitive blæju blæjunnar blæja blæjanna
Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Szemerenyi, Scripta minora: selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin, Volume 2, p. 714
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “Blahjōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

blæja m

  1. indefinite genitive plural of blær

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Noun edit

blæja f (definite singular blæja, indefinite plural blæjer or blæjor, definite plural blæjene or blæjone)

  1. definite singular of blæje (non-standard since 1938)
  2. (pre-1938) alternative form of bleie
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