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blew
- simple past of blow
- (now colloquial) past participle of blow
blew (countable and uncountable, plural blews)
blew (comparative more blew, superlative most blew)
Cognate with Breton blev and Welsh blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).[2]
blew m (singulative blewen)
- ^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838
blew
- Alternative form of blewe
From Middle Welsh blew; cognate with Breton blev and Cornish blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).[2]
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈbleːu̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈblɛu̯/
- Rhymes: -ɛu̯
blew m (collective, singulative blewyn)
- achub y blewyn a cholli’r bwrn (“to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, to falsely economise”)
- amranflew (“eyelash”)
- at y blewyn (“to a hair's breadth, precisely”)
- blew amrant (“eyelashes”)
- blew cae, blew glas (“blades of grass”)
- blew llygaid (“eyelashes”)
- blew Medi (“gossamer”)
- blew pen (“head hair”)
- blew pigog (“stingers of a nettle”)
- blewiach (“fine hairs, down”)
- blewog (“furry”)
- blew'r arffed (“pubic hair”)
- blew'r gên (“beard”)
- blewyn da ar (“in good condition”)
- brethyn blew (“haircloth”)
- bwrw blew (“to moult, to shed hair”)
- di-flewyn-ar-dafod (“straight-talking”)
- dim blewyn ar ei dafod (“straight-talking”)
- edau flew (“mohair”)
- ffolicl blewyn (“hair follicle”)
- goflew (“fine hair, down”)
- gweld blew ei lygaid (“to mistakenly believe one sees things”)
- heb blewyn ar ei dafod (“straight-talking, outspoken”)
- hel blew ceimion (“to wander around”)
- hollti blew (“to split hairs”)
- hollti'r blewyn yn bedwar ar ddeg (“to exaggerate, to lie”)
- i'r blewyn (“to a hair's breadth, precisely”)
- lled blewyn (“hair's breadth”)
- manflew (“fur, down”)
- sbort pen blewyn (“rushlight”)
- trwch blewyn (“hair's breadth”)
- tynnu blewyn cwta (“to draw lots”)
- tynnu blewyn o drwyn (“to provoke, to goad”)
- ^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838