"blas" meaning in Scottish Gaelic

See blas in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pl̪ˠas̪/ Forms: blais [genitive, singular], blasan [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], blas [mutation, mutation-radical], bhlas [lenition, mutation]
Etymology: From Middle Irish blas, from Old Irish mlas, from Proto-Celtic *mlastos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel-s- (compare Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”)). Etymology templates: {{inh|gd|mga|blas}} Middle Irish blas, {{der|gd|sga|mlas}} Old Irish mlas, {{der|gd|cel-pro|*mlastos}} Proto-Celtic *mlastos, {{der|gd|ine-pro|*mel-s-}} Proto-Indo-European *mel-s-, {{cog|ru|молса́ть||to suck}} Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”) Head templates: {{head|gd|noun|||||||genitive singular|blais|||||||||plural|blasan||||||{{{pl4}}}|||cat2=|f10accel-form=p|f11accel-form=genpl|f1accel-form=dat|s|f2accel-form=dat|s|f3accel-form=dat|s|f4accel-form=gen|s|f5accel-form=gen|s|f6accel-form=gen|s|f7accel-form=gen|s|f8accel-form=p|f9accel-form=p|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} blas m (genitive singular blais, plural blasan), {{gd-noun|g=m|gen=blais|pl=blasan}} blas m (genitive singular blais, plural blasan)
  1. taste, flavour Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-blas-gd-noun-ChgWWV7I Categories (other): Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header: 71 29
  2. accent Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-blas-gd-noun-o6fwU64u
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: blais, blasad, blasta

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "blas",
      "blas#Middle_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "mlas",
      "mlas#Old_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "*mlastos",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mlastos"
    ],
    [
      "*mel-s-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mel-s-"
    ],
    [
      "молса́ть",
      "молсать#Russian"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "blas"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish blas",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "mlas"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish mlas",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*mlastos"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *mlastos",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mel-s-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mel-s-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "молса́ть",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to suck"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish blas, from Old Irish mlas, from Proto-Celtic *mlastos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel-s- (compare Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”)).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blais",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blasan",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhlas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "10": "blais",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "",
        "18": "",
        "19": "plural",
        "2": "noun",
        "20": "blasan",
        "21": "",
        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "",
        "25": "",
        "26": "{{{pl4}}}",
        "27": "",
        "28": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "genitive singular",
        "cat2": "",
        "f10accel-form": "p",
        "f11accel-form": "genpl",
        "f1accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f2accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f3accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f4accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f5accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f6accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f7accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f8accel-form": "p",
        "f9accel-form": "p",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "blas m (genitive singular blais, plural blasan)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "gen": "blais",
        "pl": "blasan"
      },
      "expansion": "blas m (genitive singular blais, plural blasan)",
      "name": "gd-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "blais"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "blasad"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "blasta"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "taste, flavour"
      ],
      "id": "en-blas-gd-noun-ChgWWV7I",
      "links": [
        [
          "taste",
          "taste"
        ],
        [
          "flavour",
          "flavour"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "accent"
      ],
      "id": "en-blas-gd-noun-o6fwU64u",
      "links": [
        [
          "accent",
          "accent"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pl̪ˠas̪/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blas"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 8 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Scottish Gaelic lemmas",
    "Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns",
    "Scottish Gaelic nouns",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Middle Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Middle Irish",
    "cy:Senses",
    "cy:Smell",
    "cy:Taste",
    "gd-noun 2"
  ],
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "blas",
      "blas#Middle_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "mlas",
      "mlas#Old_Irish"
    ],
    [
      "*mlastos",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mlastos"
    ],
    [
      "*mel-s-",
      "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mel-s-"
    ],
    [
      "молса́ть",
      "молсать#Russian"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "blas"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish blas",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "mlas"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish mlas",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*mlastos"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *mlastos",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*mel-s-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *mel-s-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "молса́ть",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to suck"
      },
      "expansion": "Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish blas, from Old Irish mlas, from Proto-Celtic *mlastos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mel-s- (compare Russian молса́ть (molsátʹ, “to suck”)).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blais",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blasan",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "l-self",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "mutation",
        "mutation-radical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bhlas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "lenition",
        "mutation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gd",
        "10": "blais",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "",
        "18": "",
        "19": "plural",
        "2": "noun",
        "20": "blasan",
        "21": "",
        "22": "",
        "23": "",
        "24": "",
        "25": "",
        "26": "{{{pl4}}}",
        "27": "",
        "28": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "genitive singular",
        "cat2": "",
        "f10accel-form": "p",
        "f11accel-form": "genpl",
        "f1accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f2accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f3accel-form": "dat|s",
        "f4accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f5accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f6accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f7accel-form": "gen|s",
        "f8accel-form": "p",
        "f9accel-form": "p",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "blas m (genitive singular blais, plural blasan)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "g": "m",
        "gen": "blais",
        "pl": "blasan"
      },
      "expansion": "blas m (genitive singular blais, plural blasan)",
      "name": "gd-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
  "lang_code": "gd",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "blais"
    },
    {
      "word": "blasad"
    },
    {
      "word": "blasta"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "taste, flavour"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "taste",
          "taste"
        ],
        [
          "flavour",
          "flavour"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "accent"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "accent",
          "accent"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pl̪ˠas̪/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blas"
}

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