Translation
to blow
Word origin
From English blow, with German blasen standing behind it in the same Germanic family. The root goes back to a Proto-Germanic verb for moving air, distantly related to Latin flare ('to blow'), the source of English inflate.
- Origin
- Germanic (English blow)
- Root
- blow
- English cognates
- blow, inflate
Examples
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A strong wind blew all night long.
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He blew on the hot soup.
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The wind blew his hat into the river.
Note the accusative of direction in the third example: , into the river, not merely in it. The wind on its own; to blow something out is elblovi, and a single puff is o.
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