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blain

noun
/bleɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English blein, from Old English bleġen, bleġene, from Proto-Germanic *blajinǭ, *blajjinǭ, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian blein (“blain”), Dutch blein, blegn (“blain”), Middle Low German bleine (“blain”). Related also to dialectal Norwegian bleime (“blister”), Old Swedish blēma (“blister”), French bleime (“an inflammation of a horse's hoof”).

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻ — “to swell up”
  2. inherited from *blajinǭ✻
  3. inherited from bleġen
  4. inherited from blein

Definitions

  1. A skin swelling or sore

    A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch.

  2. A surname.

  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blain. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA