blote

See also: blöte

English

Verb

blote (third-person singular simple present blotes, present participle bloting, simple past and past participle bloted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for blote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse blóta, from Proto-Germanic *blōtaną, cognate with Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌰𐌽 (blōtan, “to worship”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈb̥loːd̥ə]

Verb

blote (imperative blot, infinitive at blote, present tense bloter, past tense blotede, perfect tense har blotet)

  1. to make a sacrifice (especially a blood sacrifice by heathens)

Dutch

Pronunciation
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Adjective

blote

  1. Inflected form of bloot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

blote (present tense blotar, past tense blota, past participle blota, passive infinitive blotast, present participle blotande, imperative blote/blot)

  1. Alternative form of blóte
  2. Alternative form of blòte

Noun

blote m or f (definite singular bloten or blota, indefinite plural blotar or bloter, definite plural blotane or blotene)

  1. Alternative form of blòte
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