blend

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English

Etymology

From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: blĕnd, IPA^(key): /blɛnd/
• Rhymes: -ɛnd
• Homophone: blende

Noun

blend (plural blends)

1. A mixture of two or more things.

   Synonyms: combination, mix, mixture

3. (linguistics) A word formed by combining two other words; a grammatical contamination, portmanteau word.

   Synonyms: frankenword, portmanteau, portmanteau word, portmantologism

   Meronym: splinter

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Verb

blend (third-person singular simple present blends, present participle blending, simple past and past participle blended or (poetic) blent)

1. (transitive) To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homogenize, Thesaurus:mix, Thesaurus:coalesce

2. (intransitive) To be mingled or mixed.
3. (obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

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Anagrams

• L-bend

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• blenk (Ripuarian; now chiefly western dialects)
• blond, blönd (Eifel)

Etymology

From Old High German blind, northern variant of blint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blent/

Adjective

blend (masculine blenne or blende, feminine blenn or blend or blende, comparative blenner or blender, superlative et blendste)

1. (Moselle Franconian, some dialects of Ripuarian) blind, unable to see

Usage notes

• The inflected forms with -nn- are used in those dialects in which blend is the inherited form (Moselle Franconian, southern Ripuarian). The forms with -nd- are used in most of those (more northern) dialects in which inherited blenk has been replaced with blend.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

blend

1. inflection of blenden:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Old English

Verb

blēnd

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of blandan

Old Norse

Verb

blend

1. first-person singular present active indicative of blanda