"blissen" meaning in Middle English

See blissen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun form}} blissen
  1. (Early Middle English) plural of blisse Tags: Early-Middle-English, form-of, plural Form of: blisse
    Sense id: en-blissen-enm-noun-RDPys8DH Categories (other): Early Middle English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈblisən/
Etymology: From Old English blīssian, from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisōn. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|blīssian}} Old English blīssian, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*blīþisōn}} Proto-West Germanic *blīþisōn Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|head=}} blissen, {{enm-verb|stem=bliss}} blissen (third-person singular simple present blisseth, present participle blissende, blissynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle blissed), {{tlb|enm|Early ME}} (Early Middle English) Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|bliss}} Forms: blisseth [present, singular, third-person], blissende [participle, present], blissynge [participle, present], blissed [first-person, indicative, participle, past, singular, third-person], weak [table-tags], blissen [infinitive], to blissen [infinitive], blisse [infinitive], blisse [first-person, present, singular], blissed [first-person, past, singular], blissest [present, second-person, singular], blissedest [past, second-person, singular], blisseth [present, singular, third-person], blissed [past, singular, third-person], blisse [present, singular, subjunctive], blissed [past, singular, subjunctive], blisse [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], blissen [plural, present], blisse [plural, present], blisseden [past, plural], blissede [past, plural], blisseth [imperative, plural, present], blisse [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], blissynge [participle, present], blissende [participle, present], blissed [participle, past], yblissed [participle, past]
  1. To be glad or joyful. Tags: Early-Middle-English
    Sense id: en-blissen-enm-verb-EdedgYDg Categories (other): Early Middle English Disambiguation of Early Middle English: 54 46
  2. To make joyful; to gladden. Tags: Early-Middle-English Categories (topical): Happiness
    Sense id: en-blissen-enm-verb-KTHlNHtQ Disambiguation of Happiness: 5 34 56 5 Categories (other): Early Middle English Disambiguation of Early Middle English: 54 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bliscen, bliscien, blissien, blissin, blissy, blissenn [Ormulum]
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} blissen
  1. Alternative form of blessen Tags: Early-Middle-English, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: blessen
    Sense id: en-blissen-enm-verb-STUs3Mmg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

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 2025-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (f90d964 and 9dbd323). 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.