bleaist

Irish

Etymology

From English blast, from Middle English blast from Old English blǣst (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāstu, from Proto-Germanic *blēstuz (“blowing, blast”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʲlʲaʃtʲ/

Noun

bleaist f (genitive singular bleaiste, nominative plural bleaisteanna)

  1. blast (violent gust of wind)
    Synonyms: rois, soinneán

Declension

Declension of bleaist (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bleaist bleaista
vocative a bhleaist a bhleaista
genitive bleaiste bleaist
dative bleaist bleaista
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bhleaist na bleaista
genitive na bleaiste na mbleaist
dative leis an mbleaist
don bhleaist 		leis na bleaista

Mutation

Mutated forms of bleaist
radical lenition eclipsis
bleaist bhleaist mbleaist

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

Further reading

  • “bleaist”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bleaist”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “bleaist”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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