name
Meaning 1
The Cushitic language spoken by the Blin people.
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blin
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/blɪn/
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rhymes with -ɪn
noun
Meaning 2
Cessation; end.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 3
A blintz or blini.
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noun
Meaning 4
An ethnic group from Eritrea.
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Usage: plural, plural-only
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verb
Meaning 5
To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, Yorkshire, especially, obsolete
Qualifier: Northumberland
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History
Etymology
From Blin ብሊና (bəlina), bélina.
From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.
From Russian блин (blin, “pancake, flat object”).