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Blain

//bleɪn// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A male given name transferred from the surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch.
  2. 2
    an inflammatory swelling or sore wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English blein, from Old English bleġen, bleġene, from Proto-Germanic *blajinǭ, *blajjinǭ, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian blein (“blain”), Dutch blein, blegn (“blain”), Middle Low German bleine (“blain”). Related also to dialectal Norwegian bleime (“blister”), Old Swedish blēma (“blister”), French bleime (“an inflammation of a horse's hoof”).

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