blasfemye
Middle English
/blasˈfɛːmiː(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- blasphemy; speech against a deity
- insulting acts towards a deity
- defamatory speech
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French blasfemie derived from Latin blasphēmia derived from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (profanity, slander, blasphemy) affix from Middle English blasfemen.
Origin
Middle English
blasfemen
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiblasphemy English
- blaspheme English
- blasphemist English
- blasphemy English
- *blastēmia Latin
- blasphemia Latin
- blasphēmia Latin
- bestemmia Italian
- blasfemia Italian
- blasfemie Dutch, Flemish
- blasfemia Spanish, Castilian
- βλασφημέω Ancient Greek
- βλασφημία Ancient Greek
- *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- blasfemi Norwegian Bokmål
- blasfemi Norwegian Nynorsk
- blasfemen Middle English
- blasfemour Middle English
- blasfemyng Middle English
- blaisféim Irish
- blasfemi Danish
- blasfemer Old French
- blasfemie Old French
- blasfemie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan