Old English · noun
bled
Normalised blēd
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /bleːd/
- Syllables
- bleːd (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- bleadproduceleavesbloomfoliageleafbranchcrop
Meaning
-
a shoot, branch
-
foliage, leaves; a leaf
-
a flower, blossom; a bloom
-
fruit; a fruit
byþ blēda lēas...
Birch is without fruit...
The Old English rune poem -
a harvest, crop; yield, produce
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *blēduz, *blōdiz (“blossom, sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-. Related to blōwan (“to bloom, blossom”).
Descendants
blead
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