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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/blautaz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰlaw- (“emaciated, soft”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈblɑu̯.tɑz/

Adjective

*blautaz

  1. soft
  2. exhausted; emptied out; spent
  3. fainthearted
  4. bare; naked

Inflection


Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old English: blēat
    • Middle English: *blete, *bleet
      • Scots: bleat, blait, bleet
  • Old Frisian: blāt
  • Old Saxon: *blōt
  • Old Dutch: *blōt
  • Old High German: blōz, *blōt
    • Middle High German: blōz
    • → Occitan: blos, blous (“pure, empty, bare”)
      • ⇒ Occitan: lano blouso (“pure or short wool”)
        • → French: blousse (“scraps of wool”)
          • ⇒? French: blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Latin: *blotiāre (from Lombardic *blōt)
      • Medieval Latin: bluttāre
  • Old Norse: blautr
  • → Proto-Samic:
    • Northern Sami: lávtas
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