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Ble ,, ‘to lose colour,’ , ‘to grow pale,’ from blîchen, ‘to shine, blush,’  blîhhan;   blîcan,  blîken, ‘to turn pale’;  blíkja, ‘to appear, shine, lighten.’ The i root of  bliskati, ‘to sparkle’ (for *bligskati), blěskŭ, ‘splendour,’  blaivýtis, ‘to clear up,’ is more closely connected with the word than the e root in φλέγω, ‘to burn, flame.’ The pre- form of the root was perhaps bhlig, meaning ‘lustre’ ( also , ; further  blick, see ). —  ,, ‘pale-red wine, claret,’ a recent from.   ,, ‘whitebait, bleak,’ term for a ‘species of white fish;   blei,  and  bleie,  blœ̂ge,  *blay; from blajjôn for *blaigjôn (  reia,  rœ̂ge, from raigjon; see under ). As  is a parallel form of  reia, so  and  (Swiss) blicke is a variant of  bleie. The primary meaning and further cognates are uncertain; bleihha,  bleiche, would point to a connection with  (  blígja, ‘to glance at’).  ,, ‘to blind,’ from the  blęnden,  blęnten;   blęndan, whereas  has to blind based upon blind; factitive of. It is remarkable in connection with this word that an old form, *blandjan, as it would be written in, is derived by gradation from an (blinds, ); a   blindan, ‘to be blind,’ has never existed. , ‘blind, screen,’ first found in, is a of.  ,, ‘mongrel,’ from blanden,  blantan, ‘to mix’;  blandan. This , meaning ‘to mix,’ is based, according to the laws of the permutation of consonants, on a pre- root bhlandh, not found in any other word.  , ‘to patch,’ see under.  ,, ‘glance, look, gleam,’ from blick, ‘splendour, lightning, glance’; corresponds to  blic (blicches), , ‘lightning’ (also blicfiur, ‘electricity’). The sense of the  word was probably  (a bright flash),  being used figuratively of the eye as of lightning; the physical meaning of the stem has been preserved in. The root is shown under, and especially under , to be the pre- bhleg.  , ‘blind’ from   blint(d), ‘blind, dark, murky, hidden, null,’  blint;  the corresponding  blinds,  blind,  blind. An ancient but very remarkable factitive form from this, with no parallel , is  ( *blandjan). It is still undecided whether d is an old suffix, like  -τος,  -tus,  -tas; considering the meaning of the word, it might easily be connected with the  root bhram, ‘to move unsteadily’ ( bhrântá-s). Yet its kinship with blandýti, ‘to cast down the eyes,’ blindo, blísti, ‘to grow dark,’ is more probable (  blunda, ‘to close, blink the eyes,’  to blunder). — Another word for ‘blind’ in the Aryan group is caecus,  cáech;  haihs, corresponding to these, means ‘one-eyed.’ It seems, moreover, that in the Aryan languages there were no terms for ‘blind, deaf, lame, dumb,’ and other infirmities, common to all of them; there is only an agreement between two or three languages at most.  , see under.  ,, ‘to gleam, twinkle, blink,’ first occurs in ; related to blank, blink, ;  blinken,  blinken,  to blink. The root may be identical with that of (blîkan), the i-root becoming nasalised;  would then be regarded as a verb of the e  and  a secondary form. ,, ‘to blink, wink.’ It may be connected with ; yet also  blunda, ‘to blink,’ and  blandyti, ‘to cast down the eyes.’  ,, from the  blitze, blicze, blicz, , ‘lightning’ (Swiss even now blitzg for bliktz); a derivative of  bliczen, ‘to lighten,’  blëcchazzen (formed like the   lauhatjun). Allied to the earlier and  blic, ‘lightning.’ The  root blëk corresponds to Aryan bhleg, bhlog, in  φλέγω, ‘to burn, blaze,’ φλόξ, ‘flame,’  bhrâj, ‘to radiate, sparkle’ (whence  bharga(s), ‘splendour,’ and bhṛgu, ‘the special gods of light’), as well as  fulgur, fulmen (for *fulgmen), ‘lightning.’ To the Aryan root bhleg the following also belong:  bliksem,  bliksmo, bliksni, ‘lightning,’  blaken, ‘to flame,’  blœcern, blacern, ‘candlestick’ (see ), and perhaps  ( further  and ).   ,, ‘block, log, prison,’ from bloch, ‘log, plant, a sort of trap.’ 