blât

See also: blat, Blat, and blåt

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• blo (Beaujolais)
• blô (Bressan)
• bla (Old Dauphinois)
  • bla (Dauphinois)
• bla (Old Fribourgeois)
• blat (Forézien)
• bla (Old Lyonnais)
• blâ (Piemontais)
• blâ, blô (Savoyard)
• bla (Valdôtain)
• bllât (ORB, narrow)
  • biè, blyâ, blyô, byô (Bressan)
  • byâ (Fribourgeois)
  • blia, bliâ, bllâ (Savoyard)

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin bladum.

Noun

blât m (plural blâts) (ORB, broad)

1. wheat

   Synonym: froment

References

• blé in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• bllât in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1441: “un sacco di grano” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 136: “le blé est” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*blād”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 15/1: Germanismes: A–Bryman, page 126