English Explanatory Dictionary

Bligh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Irish.

Word forms

Bligh Blighs Blee

Etymology

* As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Blighe (“descendant of Blighe”), probably Gaelicized from Old Norse Blígr, from blígja (“to gaze, stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyg-, from *bʰel- (“to shine”). * As a Cornish surname, from bleydh (“wolf”). Compare Blethen. * As an English surname of Norman origin, variant of Blythe.

Derived words

Bligh Park
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on B Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary