Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname from Irish.
* As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Blighe (“descendant of Blighe”), probably Gaelicized from Old Norse Blígr, from blígja (“to gaze, stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyg-, from *bʰel- (“to shine”). * As a Cornish surname, from bleydh (“wolf”). Compare Blethen. * As an English surname of Norman origin, variant of Blythe.
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