blyscan

Old English

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ (“burning candle; torch”) or alternatively from *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ (“torch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblyʃ.ʃɑn/

Verb

blysċan

1. to redden

Descendants

• English: blush

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “blyscan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “blush”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 102; reprinted 1994.