bleán

See also: bléan

Irish

Alternative forms

• blí (Ulster)
• bleaghan, bleoghan (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish blegon, from Old Irish mlegon (“act of milking; yield of milk, milking”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bʲlʲɑːnˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbʲlʲɨ̞ɡənˠ/ (as if spelled bliogan)

Noun

bleán m (genitive singular as substantive bleáin, genitive as verbal noun blite, nominative plural)

1. verbal noun of bligh
2. milk yield

   Synonyms: bleacht, bleánach, crúthach, lacht, táirgeacht, tál

3. milking

   Synonym: crú

Declension

Declension of bleán

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative bleán Vocative a bhleáin Genitive bleáin Dative bleán

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an bleán Genitive an bhleáin Dative leis an mbleán don bhleán

Derived terms

• bleánlann f (“milking parlour”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bleán	bhleán	mbleán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bleán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “blegon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 46