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)

bleary-eyed, blear, having gound in one’s eyes
pale, wan
drab

Declension

declension of blatzeg

number and gender		singular			plural
number and gender		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		hien ass blatzeg	si ass blatzeg	et ass blatzeg	si si(nn) blatzeg
without article	nominative/accusative	blatzegen	blatzeg	blatzegt	blatzeg
without article	dative	blatzegem	blatzeger	blatzegem	blatzegen
with article	nominative/accusative	blatzegen	blatzeg	blatzegt	blatzeg
with article	dative	blatzegen	blatzeger	blatzegen	blatzegen

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