blin

See also: Blin and блин

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

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”).

Verb

blin (third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blun)

  1. (obsolete) To cease from.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
      nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].
  2. (archaic or dialectal) To stop, desist; to cease to move, run, flow, etc., let up.
    • 1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:
      A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.
    • 1908, John Masefield, A sailor's garland:
      Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken

Noun

blin

  1. (obsolete) cessation; end

Etymology 2

From Russian блин (blin, “pancake, flat object”).

Noun

blin

  1. A blintz.

Anagrams

Welsh

Adjective

blin (feminine singular blin, plural blinion, equative blined, comparative blinach, superlative blinaf)

  1. tired, weary
  2. tiresome, wearisome
  3. troubling, troublesome, distressing
  4. angry, cross, mad

Derived terms

  • blinder (“tiredness, weariness; trouble, affliction”)
  • blino (“to tire, to become weary; to trouble, to afflict”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
blin flin mlin unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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