Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To color or dye blond.
Of a bleached or pale golden (light yellowish) colour. · Particularly of a person, having blond hair. · Alternative spelling of blonde (“stupid”).
A pale yellowish (golden brown) color, especially said of hair color. · A person with this hair color. · A beer of a pale golden color.
Borrowed from Middle French blond m, from Old French blond, blont, blund, (> Medieval Latin blondus), from Frankish *blund (“a mixed color between golden and light-brown”), from Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“mixed, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to become turbid, see badly, go blind”). Compare Old English blondenfeax (“grey-haired”), Old English blandan (“to mix”). See more at blend. An alternative etymology connects Frankish *blund to Proto-Germanic *blundaz (“blond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ndʰ-, *bʰlendʰ- (“blond, red-haired”). If so, then it would be cognate with Sanskrit ब्रध्न (bradhná, “ruddy, pale red, yellowish”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Borrowed-form mentionblondfrm
- Derivation mentionblondfro
- Derivation mention*blundazgem-pro · mixed, blinding
- Derivation mention*bʰlendʰ-ine-pro · to become turbid, see badly, go blind
- Cognate mentionblondenfeaxang · grey-haired
- Cognate mentionblandanang · to mix
- Derivation mention*blundazgem-pro · blond
- Derivation mention*bʰl̥ndʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionब्रध्नsa · ruddy, pale red, yellowish
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