blain

Meaning

Noun

• A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch.

Origin

• From Middle English blein, from Old English bleġen, bleġene, from Proto-Germanic *blajinǭ, *blajjinǭ, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognate with West Frisian blein, Dutch blein, blegn, Middle Low German bleine. Related also to dialectal Norwegian bleime, Old Swedish blēma, French bleime.