Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Bashful, sheepish. · Dull, stupid.
Borrowed from Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of: * Northern Middle English *blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from Old English blāt (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Germanic *blaitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale, pallid”); * Middle English bleth, bleath (“timid, soft”), from Old English blēaþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak, timid, void, naked”). Cognate with German blassen (“to make pale”), bleich (“pale, pallid”). More at bleak, bleach.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Borrowed-form mentionblatesco · timid, sheepish
- Derivation mentionblatang
- Derivation mention*blaitgmw-pro · pale, discoloured
- Derivation mention*blaitazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*bʰleyd-ine-pro · pale, pallid
- Derivation mentionblethenm
- Derivation mentionblēaþang · gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate
- Derivation mention*blauþuzgem-pro · weak, timid, void, naked
- Cognate mentionblassende · to make pale
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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