Etymology

bladelet

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Today it means: A small stone blade with one sharp and one blunt edge Full definition →

English blade ← Middle English blade ← Old English blæd
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₃-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bladą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*blad
  4. Old Englishblæd
  5. Middle Englishblad
  6. Middle Englishblade
  7. Englishblade
  8. English todaybladelet

From blade + -let.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.