blain
blain · blains
Skin swelling or soreSkin swelling or sore; blister; blotch.
/bleɪn/
Meaning
1 sensesSkin swelling or sore; blister; blotch.
an inflammatory swelling or sore
Origin
From Middle English blein, from Old English bleġen, bleġene, from Proto-Germanic *blajinǭ,From Middle English blein, from Old English bleġen, bleġene, from Proto-Germanic *blajinǭ, *blajjinǭ, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian blein (“blain”), Dutch blein, blegn (“blain”), Middle Low German bleine (“blain”). Related also to dialectal Norwegian bleime (“blister”), Old Swedish blēma (“blister”), French bleime (“an inflammation of a horse's hoof”).
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