Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Cessation; end.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.
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