bhles-

bhles-
    bhles-
    English meaning: to shine
    Deutsche Übersetzung: “glänzen”
    Note: : up to now only in the Gmc. provable extension from bhel- ‘shine”
    Material: M.H.G. blas “naked, bald, bleak, pallid” (Ger. blaß) n. “torch, burning candle”, O.E. blæse “torch, fire”, Eng. blaze “blaze, glow; white forehead spot “, O.H.G. blas-ros “horse with with a bright spot” (with a bright spot on the forehead), M.L.G. bles, blesse (*blasjō) “paleness”, O.Ice. *bles- in blesōttr “ marked with a white spot “ and in compound on -blesi.
    References: WP. II 217.

Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.

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