bleie

From Old Norse blæja.

bleie f or m (definite singular bleia or bleien, indefinite plural bleier, definite plural bleiene)

1. a nappy (UK), or diaper (US)

• “bleie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• bleia, blæja, blæje (defunct)

From earlier and Old Norse blæa, blæja. Compare Icelandic blæja (“veil”) and Faroese blæa.

bleie f (definite singular bleia, indefinite plural bleier, definite plural bleiene)

1. a nappy (UK), or diaper (US)
2. another kind of cloth
   1. (dated, rare) bedsheets
   2. (colloquial) a bag of snuff
   3. (historical) a tablecloth, cloth, altarcloth

      Synonym: duk

3. suet

   Synonym: netje

4. (ecclesiastical) an altar (covered by an altarcloth)
   1. (ecclesiastical) an altar ring; a ring-shaped altar rail

      Synonym: altarring

   2. (ecclesiastical) the amount of communicants around the altar in one go

      Synonym: knefall

      Dæ va tri Bleie mæ Altersfolk.

      There were three rounds of communicants [at the altar].

• “bleie” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Ivar Aasen (1850) “Bleia”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎ (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000.