blása
Old Norse
verb
Definitions
- to blow
- to blow with the mouth
- (transitive) to set in motion by blowing
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (blow) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (blow, bleat, swell, blow up, cry, yellow, surge, overflow, run, puff up, blue, inflate, grey).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰleh₁-
Gloss
blow, bleat, swell, blow up, cry, yellow, surge, overflow, run, puff up, blue, inflate, grey
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- inflate English
- blosis Finnish
- cōnflātus Latin
- flemen Latin
- florus Latin
- fluō Latin
- flō Latin
- īnflātiō Latin
- bleiten Dutch, Flemish
- inflatie Dutch, Flemish
- *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- blåse Norwegian Bokmål
- blåseinstrument Norwegian Bokmål
- blåserør Norwegian Bokmål
- glassblåser Norwegian Bokmål
- oppblåsbar Norwegian Bokmål
- sandblåse Norwegian Bokmål
- vindblåst Norwegian Bokmål
- *blēaną Proto-Germanic
- *blēdrǭ Proto-Germanic
- *blēsaną Proto-Germanic
- *blēstaz Proto-Germanic
- *blēstuz Proto-Germanic
- *blētijaną Proto-Germanic
- *blēwaz Proto-Germanic
- blåsa Swedish
- blåsinstrument Swedish
- blåse Norwegian Nynorsk
- blåseinstrument Norwegian Nynorsk
- fløyt Norwegian Nynorsk
- oppblåsbar Norwegian Nynorsk
- sandblåse Norwegian Nynorsk
- blástr Old Norse
- blæse Danish
- *blějati Proto-Slavic
- flahute Old French
- blása Icelandic
- blase Middle Dutch
- blasen Middle Dutch
- bleren Middle Dutch
- blâsen Middle Dutch
- blāsan Old High German
- blása Faroese
- flatulent Middle French
- *blāsan gmw-pro
- *blāsan Old Dutch
- *flāō Proto-Italic
- *flēō Proto-Italic
- blaitand Scots
- *(s)blèwsa Proto-Albanian
- blæsæ Old Danish
- blåsa Elfdalian
- blæsa Scanian