English Explanatory Dictionary

blay

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The bleak (fish).
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.

Word forms

blay blays

Etymology

From Middle English *blaye, *bleye, from Old English blǣġe (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaigijā, from Proto-Germanic *blaigijǭ (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyk- (“to shine”). Cognate with West Frisian blei, Dutch blei, German Bleie, Bleihe (“blay”).

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