blaa

See also: blå and blåa

English

Etymology

From French, either from blé (“wheat”) or from blanc (“white”) as in pain blanc (“white bread”).

Noun

blaa (plural blaas)

1. (bakery, Ireland) a soft white breakfast roll, traditionally associated with south-east Ireland

Derived terms

• Waterford blaa

Anagrams

• AABL, Alba, Ba'al, Baal, Bala, Baʿal, LABA, alba, baal, laab

East Central German

Alternative forms

• bloo

Etymology

From Middle High German blā, from Old High German blāo.

Adjective

blaa

1. (Erzgebirgisch) blue

Further reading

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:

• Alte und neue Gedichte und Geschichten in erzgebirgischer Mundart, 12. Heft., P. 2
• Manfred Blechschmidt, Behüt eich fei dos Licht Ein Weihnachtsbuch des Erzgebirges P. 190

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bláth, from Proto-Celtic *blātus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bleː/

Noun

blaa m (genitive singular blaa, plural blaaghyn)

1. flower
2. bloom
3. pride
4. heyday

Derived terms

• blaag
• blaaghey
• blaagheyder
• blaanid
• blaaoil

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
blaa	vlaa	mlaa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.