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語源 1

Borrowed from Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of:

• Northern 中期英語 *blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from 古期英語 blāt (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Germanic *blaitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale, pallid”);
• 中期英語 bleth, bleath (“timid, soft”), from 古期英語 blēaþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak, timid, void, naked”).

Cognate with German blassen (“to make pale”), bleich (“pale, pallid”). More at bleak, bleach.

形容詞

blate (comparative blater, superlative blatest)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 491:

     You'd say Not them; fine legs, and Ma struggling into her blouse would say You're no blate. Who told you they're fine?

2. (Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.

派生語

• blateness

語源 2

動詞

blate (third-person singular simple present blates, present participle blating, simple past and past participle blated)

1. Archaic form of bleat.
   • 1851, William Maxwell, The Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Note Book:

     Away they fly, like a party of Indians after buffaloes; while along the road, it may be, cattle are bellowing, sheep blating, dogs barking, hens cackling, and crows cawing.

関連する語

• blatant

アナグラム

• ablet, table, belta, Taleb, bleat