Blin

//blɪn// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Cushitic language spoken by the Blin people.
Noun
  1. 1
    Cessation; end. obsolete
  2. 2
    A blintz or blini.

    "The cook raised an immense amount of dough for the bliny. […] “Hey, a blin for me!” one would call, holding out an empty plate with a hand dripping with butter and sour cream."

  3. 3
    An ethnic group from Eritrea. plural, plural-only
Verb
  1. 1
    To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up. Scotland, Yorkshire, especially, obsolete

    "nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...]."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.

Etymology 2

From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.

Etymology 3

From Russian блин (blin, “pancake, flat object”).

Etymology 4

From Blin ብሊና (bəlina), bélina.

Etymology 5

From Blin ብሊና (bəlina), bélina.

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