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blain

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5 lettersPronunciation /bleɪn/Part of speech nounSorted abilnStarts with BEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. an inflammatory swelling or sore

Word origin

From Middle English blein, from Old English bleġen, bleġene, from Proto-Germanic *blajinǭ, *blajjinǭ, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian blein (“blain”), Dutch blein, blegn (“blain”), Middle Low German bleine (“blain”). Related also to dialectal Norwegian bleime (“blister”), Old Swedish blēma (“blister”), French bleime (“an inflammation of a horse's hoof”).

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