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 and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “blyscan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Charles Talbot Onions, editor (1966), The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (in Old English), London, England: Oxford University Press, page 102