blein

From Middle Dutch bleine. Cognate with English blain.

• IPA^(key): /blɛi̯n/

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• Hyphenation: blein
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯n

blein f (plural bleinen, diminutive bleintje n)

1. (now Southern) blister

• (blister): blaar, blaasje

• bleinroos
• bloedblein

From Old Irish blíadain, from Proto-Celtic *bleidanī (“year”).

• IPA^(key): [blʲeːnʲ], [blʲiᵈn]

blein f (genitive singular bleeaney, plural bleeantyn)

1. year

   Cha vel mee er n'akin eh rish bleeantyn liauyrey. ― I haven't set eyes on him for years.

   Niartee y graih oc car ny bleeantyn. ― Their love deepened through the years.

   Ta ny bleeantyn tayrn er gerrey. ― The years draw nigh.

• bleinoil (“annual, yearly”)

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
blein	vlein	mlein
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bliadain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /bleˈin/

blein (uncountable bleins)

1. blindness