English
blare
Blare comes from Middle English blaren.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500blaren
- Englishearliest quotation 1535blare
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500blaren
- Englishearliest quotation 1535blare
Earliest quotation: 1535, Myles Coverdale: “And the kyne wente ſtraight waye vnto Beth Semes…”
The story
The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (‘to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat’), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (‘to bleat, cry’) and ultimately imitative.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to bleat, cry’
blow, inflation, flavor, blast, flux, fluent, bliss, bladder, confluence, fluency, feeble, inflate, fluvial, flatulence, soufflé, blithely, conflate, bleat, blather, blasé, 45 more
through Old English *blǣran
Today it means
verb To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English blaren / blare