Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *blaut, from Proto-Germanic *blautaz (“void, soft, emaciated”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlaw- (“frightened, weak”). Cognate with Old English blēat (“poor, miserable, naked”), Old Norse blautr (“weak, timid, afraid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bloːt͡s/ (earlier)
- IPA(key): /bloːs/ (later)
Adjective
blōz
- bare, naked
Descendants
- Middle High German: blōz
- Alemannic German: bloos, blooss, blöiß (Einsiedeln)
- Central Franconian:
- Kölsch: blus
- German: bloß
- Luxembourgish: blouss
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: blooss
- Yiddish: בלויז (bloyz)
- → Occitan: blos, blous (“pure, empty, bare”)
- ⇒ Occitan: lano blouso (“pure or short wool”)
- → French: blousse (“scraps of wool”)
- ⇒? French: blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”) (see there for further descendants)
- → Latin: *blotiāre (from Lombardic *blōt)