blatzeg

Luxembourgish

Etymology

The original meaning is “blear, bleary-eyed”, from Blatz (“gound, sleepy dust”) and blatzen (“to be blear, goundy”). Related dialectal forms show that the -a- in these words is (regularly) derived from an underlying -i-. Blatzen might hence be a doublet of blécksen (“to blink”, the natural reaction to dry eyes), from Bléck (“look, glance”), older also Black, here with the native vocalism preserved and with -cks- → -tz-, a fairly common development in High German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈblɑtseχ/, [ˈblɑt͡səɕ]

Adjective

blatzeg (masculine blatzegen, neuter blatzegt, comparative méi blatzeg, superlative am blatzegsten)

  1. bleary-eyed, blear, having gound in one’s eyes
  2. pale, wan
  3. drab

Declension

Declension of blatzeg
singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative hien ass si ass et ass si si(nn)
nominative /
accusative 		attributive and/or after determiner blatzegen blatzegt
independent without determiner blatzeges blatzeger
dative after any declined word blatzegen blatzeger blatzegen blatzegen
as first declined word blatzegem blatzegem
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