"blase" meaning in Middle English

See blase in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈblaːz(ə)/, /ˈblɛ̞ːz(ə)/ Forms: blases [plural], blasen [plural], blese [alternative], blaese [alternative, Early-Middle-English], blease [alternative, Early-Middle-English]
Etymology: Inherited from Old English blase, from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ. Etymology templates: {{ety|enm|:inh|ang:blase|id=a blaze}} [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "shiny", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*bʰel-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*blasǭ", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*blasā", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "blase", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "blase", "lang" : "enm" }" data-id="a blaze" data-lang="enm" data-title="blase" id="Middle_English:_a_blaze">, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang|blase|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old English blase, {{inh+|enm|ang|blase}} Inherited from Old English blase, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*blasā}} Proto-West Germanic *blasā, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*blasǭ}} Proto-Germanic *blasǭ Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} blase, {{enm-noun|blases|pl2=blasen}} blase (plural blases or blasen)
  1. A blaze (bright, flaming fire)
    Sense id: en-blase-enm-noun-ZyGRECKs Categories (other): Middle English entries with etymon, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Fire Disambiguation of Middle English entries with etymon: 40 48 12 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 30 36 8 25 Disambiguation of Fire: 50 50 0 0
  2. (rare) A lamp or beacon (fire used as lighting). Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-blase-enm-noun-1aH~nYzv Categories (other): Middle English entries with etymon, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Fire, Light sources Disambiguation of Middle English entries with etymon: 40 48 12 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 30 36 8 25 Disambiguation of Fire: 50 50 0 0 Disambiguation of Light sources: 22 49 14 14
  3. (rare) A bright thing or object. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-blase-enm-noun-nCRvNRtd Categories (other): Middle English entries with etymon Disambiguation of Middle English entries with etymon: 40 48 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: blasen
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Etymology: See blasen. Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|altform=1}} blase
  1. alternative form of blasen Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: blasen
    Sense id: en-blase-enm-verb-41QLWmJ7 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 30 36 8 25
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (e62056b and e7887d5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.