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Blessed - Etymology, Origin Meaning - Etymonline The meaning shifted in late Old English toward "pronounce or make happy, prosperous, or fortunate" by resemblance to unrelated bliss The meaning "invoke or pronounce God's blessing upon" is from early 14c
bless - Wiktionary, the free dictionary From Middle English blessen, from Old English bletsian (“to consecrate (with blood)”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdisōn (“to sprinkle, mark or hallow with blood”), from Proto-Germanic *blōþą (“blood”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom”)
blessed in Old English - Glosbe Dictionary Check 'blessed' translations into Old English Look through examples of blessed translation in sentences, listen to pronunciation and learn grammar
Blessing and cursing, part 1: bless - OUPblog The Old English forms of blithe and bliss were blīþe and bliss ~ blīþs respectively, while bless appeared in our earliest texts in the forms blētsian, blēdsian, and blœdsian (also with a long vowel in the root; þ had the value of th in Modern Engl thin)
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Blessing - Etymology, Origin Meaning - Etymonline This word was chosen in Old English bibles to translate Latin benedicere and Greek eulogein, both of which have a ground sense of "to speak well of, to praise," but were used in Scripture to translate Hebrew brk "to bend (the knee), worship, praise, invoke blessings "