bhlagh-men-

    bhlagh-men-

    English meaning: priest

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Zauberpriester”; originally probably Neutrum “Opferhandlung”

    Note: Root bhlagh-men- : “priest” derived from the extended Root bhlaĝ- : “to hit”, meaning Aryan priests assumed they would gain the grace of gods through immolatIon.

    Material: O.Ir. brahmán- m. “magic priest”, bráhman- n. ‘spell, charm, devotion “; Messap. βλαμινι “priest”; Lat. flümen, -inis m. “the priest of some particular god, sacrificial priest” (not the old *-ēn). Because of the numerous congruities in the religious terminology between the Italic and Indic this is equation of the preferred explanation of flümen from *bhlüd-(s)men, angebl. “ sacrifice, immolation “ (to Goth. blōtan “ worship “, O.N. blōta, O.E. blōtan, O.H.G. bluozan ‘sacrifice”, O.N. blōt n. ‘sacrifice, oblation” [-es-stem, compare finn. luote “ chant, incantation “ from Proto-Gmc. *blōtes], O.H.G. bluostar n. ds., etc). compare also Dumé zil REtIE. 1, 377, still compares Arm. baɫjal “ strive after “. Maybe Alb. lut “chant, pray” : finn. luote “ chant, incantation “

    References: WP. II 209, WH. I 512 f., 865 f., Feist 100 f., 580 a.