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blaen

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Welsh

Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(North Wales) IPA^(key): /blaːɨ̯n/
(South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /blai̯n/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /blaːn/
Rhymes: -aːɨ̯n

Noun

blaen m (plural blaenau)

tip, point, apex
front
foremost, first, leader
(usually in the plural) frontier, march, border; uplands, highlands

Derived terms

blaengar (“prominent; advanced”)
blaeneuwr (“highlander”)
blaenor (“elder”)
blaenyrru (“to forward”)
o flaen (“in front of”)
o'r blaen (“before, beforehand”)
ymlaen (“forward, ahead, on”)

Adjective

blaen (feminine singular blaen, plural blaen, equative blaened, comparative blaenach, superlative blaenaf)

front, foremost, anterior

Derived terms

golau blaen (“headlight”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *blaen*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
blaen	flaen	mlaen	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “blaen”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

^ Morris Jones, John (1913) A Welsh Grammar, Historical and Comparative, Oxford: Clarendon Press, § 215 iii (10)

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