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Bla. The words with initial bl separate into two groups; the one, containing, , , , , seems to be based on the primary meaning of ‘swelling,’ the other, comprising , , , , , , , , on the notion of ‘shining.’  ,, ‘pale, faint (in colour),’ from blas, ‘bald,’ figuratively ‘weak, trifling’; the earlier signification is ‘shining’ ( , from ); allied to  blas, ‘whitish.’ Hence by mutation , , ‘a white spot on the forehead,’  bles (earlier  blis),  blare (but blasenhengst, ‘horse with a blaze’),  blaar, ‘cow with a blaze.’ With the meaning ‘shining,’  blase,  blaze,  blas, , ‘a torch,’ are connected.   ,, ‘leaf, blade, newspaper,’ from the  and  blat ’;  the corresponding  blad,  blœd, ‘leaf,’  blade;  *blaþ. The dental of these cognates seems to be a suffix; bla- from pre- bhlo-, as well as fol-ium,, φύλλον, ‘leaf,’ may have been formed from a root bhol, bhlô. It is uncertain whether *blada- is really a  with an Ayran suffix tó-, with the meaning ‘having ceased to bloom’ or ‘fully grown.’ See.   ,, ‘pock, pustule,’ from blâtere, , ‘bladder, pock,’  blâttara, , ‘bladder’;   blaar,  blœ̂dre,  bladder. The form would be *blêdrô (or bladrô? see ), with drô- as a suffix, corresponding to  τρα (see, ); for blê as a root syllable see ,.  ,, from the  blâ (Gen. blâwes),  blâo, ‘blue’;   blaauw,  blâw, and with a suffix blœ̂wen;  blue (from  blew) is borrowed from  bleu, which, with its  cognates ( biavo, from *blawo), is of  origin. The cognate  flâvus, ‘flaxen, yellow,’ has, like so many names of colours, changed its meaning compared with the  word.  ,, ‘beetle, rolling-pin,’ derived from the following word.   ,, ‘to beat, drub’; instinctively allied by Germans to (, ‘to beat black and blue’). It is based, however, on a,  bliuwen,  bliuwan, ‘to beat’;  the   *bleówan, whence  blow;  bliggwan, ‘to beat’ (with an excrescent gg),  for bliwan. The root seems to be blu, from bhlu-; it can hardly be related primitively to, nor is it possible to derive *bliwan from a root bhliw for bhligw from bhligh , and to compare it with flîgere.   ,, ‘thin metal plate, tin plate,’ from the  blëch,  blëh, ; it corresponds to  blik, , ‘gold, thin plate of gold.’ In  the word is not to be met with; it is formed by gradation from the root blik, which appears in , and means ‘shining.’ —   , ‘to pay money,’.  , ‘to show one's teeth, grin,’ from  blęcken, ‘to become visible, show,’  blęcchen ( *blakjan). Factitive of a *blikan, which, according to the law of the permutation of consonants, is cognate with  φλέγω, ‘to burn, shine’ ( φλογ- in φλόξ, ‘flame’),  flagro, ‘to burn,’ and the  root bhrâj), ‘to shine.’  blęcchen also means ‘to lighten, gleam, shine forth,’ For further details see .  ,  ‘lead,’ from the   blî (Gen. blîwes), blîo (for *blîw), ‘lead’; it corresponds to  blý;  *bleiwa- is wanting. The word cannot be traced farther back; it is not found in, the term used being lead ( loot;  ). <section end="Blei" /> , , ‘to remain, continue,’ from the   blîben,  bilîban;  the corresponding  belîfan,  bileiban, ‘to remain’ (the factitive of which is bilaibjan, ‘to cause to remain, leave over’;  lœ̂fan,  to leave). It is allied neither to  linquo nor to  λείπω, to which leihen is more akin; bilîbo, ‘I remain,’ must be based on pre- lîpô ( root lip, ‘to adhere’);  λιπαρὸς, ‘greasy, shining,’ λίπος, , ‘fat,’ λιπαρέω, ‘I persist,’ comes nearest to the meaning of the  ;   lipnąli,  lipti, ‘to adhere, remain.’ With the former meaning, ‘to adhere,’   is connected, and with the latter, ‘to persist, abide,’ the   and. See the separate words. ,, ‘pale, wan,’ from the  bleich,  bleih;   blâc, blœ̂ce,  bleak,  bleek,  bleikr, ‘pale,’ from the root blik appearing in. Derivatives:, , ‘bleaching, bleaching-yard, wan appearance’; , ‘to bleach, turn pale.’