blench
English
/blɛnt͡ʃ/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
- (intransitive) To quail.
- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English blenchen inherited from Old English blenċan (cheat, deceive) inherited from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (deceive) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (shine, strike).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰleyǵ-
Gloss
shine, strike
Concept
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- blencher English
- blink English
- blink-eyed English
- blinker English
- blinkest English
- blinketh English
- blinkie English
- blinkle English
- blinkless English
- blinky English
- eyeblink English
- iceblink English
- interblink English
- landblink English
- moonblink English
- snowblink English
- sunblink English
- fligo Latin
- blank Dutch, Flemish
- blanc French
- *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *blaikaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankijaną Proto-Germanic
- *blīkaną Proto-Germanic
- blencan Old English
- blenċan Old English
- blenchen Middle English
- blynken Middle English
- blekkja Old Norse
- blanc Old French
- blekking Icelandic
- blekkja Icelandic
- blyîntchi Norman
- blikisni Old Dutch
- blank Middle Low German
- блискъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian