blew

See also: Blew

English

blew

blew (countable and uncountable, plural blews)

blew (comparative more blew, superlative most blew)

Cognate with Breton blev and Welsh blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).^[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).^[2]

blew m (singulative blewen)

Mutation of blew

Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
blew	vlew	unchanged	plew	flew	vlew

^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838

blew

From Middle Welsh blew; cognate with Breton blev and Cornish blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).^[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).^[2]

blew m (collective, singulative blewyn)

achub y blewyn a cholli’r bwrn (“to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, to falsely economise”)
amranflew (“eyelash”)
at y blewyn (“to a hair's breadth, precisely”)
blew amrant (“eyelashes”)
blew cae (“blades of grass”)
blew glas (“blades of grass”)
blew llygaid (“eyelashes”)
blew Medi (“gossamer”)
blew pen (“head hair”)
blew pigog (“stingers of a nettle”)
blewiach (“fine hairs, down”)
blewog (“furry”)
blew'r arffed (“pubic hair”)
blew'r gên (“beard”)
blewyn da ar (“in good condition”)
brethyn blew (“haircloth”)
bwrw blew (“to moult, to shed hair”)
di-flewyn-ar-dafod (“straight-talking”)
dim blewyn ar ei dafod (“straight-talking”)
edau flew (“mohair”)
ffolicl blewyn (“hair follicle”)
goflew (“fine hair, down”)
gweld blew ei lygaid (“to mistakenly believe one sees things”)
heb blewyn ar ei dafod (“straight-talking, outspoken”)
hel blew ceimion (“to wander around”)
hollti blew (“to split hairs”)
hollti blewyn yn bedwar ar ddeg (“to exaggerate, to lie”)
i'r blewyn (“to a hair's breadth, precisely”)
lled blewyn (“hair's breadth”)
manflew (“fur, down”)
sbort pen blewyn (“rushlight”)
trwch blewyn (“hair's breadth”)
tynnu blewyn cwta (“to draw lots”)
tynnu blewyn o drwyn (“to provoke, to goad”)

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
blew	flew	mlew	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838