Blin Definition

verb

(archaic or dialectal) To stop, desist; to cease to move, run, flow, etc., let up.

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noun

(obsolete) Cessation; end.

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Origin of Blin

  • 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”).

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