blay

From Middle English *blaye, *bleye, from Old English blǣġe (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Germanic *blaigijǭ (“blay, bleak, gudgeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyk- (“to shine”). Cognate with German Bleie, Bleihe (“blay”).

• Rhymes: -eɪ

blay (plural blays)

1. The bleak (fish).

• -ably, Alby, ably

From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāwan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāan. Unetymological <y> was influnced by Irish <ái> /aː/ & <ói> /oː/.

• IPA^(key): /blɔː/

blay (present participle blayeen)

1. to blow
2. to shout

• blowe

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 26