bléin

See also: blein

Irish

Alternative forms

• bléan
• bleun (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish bléin, from Old Irish mleen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲlʲeːnʲ/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /bʲleːn/

Noun

bléin f (genitive singular bléine or bléineach, nominative plural bléinte)

1. groin (long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs)

Declension

Declension of bléin (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative bléin bléinte vocative a bhléin a bhléinte genitive bléine bléinte dative bléin bléinte forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an bhléin na bléinte genitive na bléine na mbléinte dative leis an mbléin don bhléin leis na bléinte

• Alternative plural forms: bléantacha, bléantracha

Mutation

Mutated forms of bléin

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bléin	bhléin	mbléin

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

Further reading

• “bléin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “blén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “bléan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 71
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “bléin”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 71
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 46
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bléin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 61