blasé

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*bʰleh₁-“to blow; to bleat, cry”
2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*blāsan“to blow”
3. Old Dutch · derived from*blāsan
4. Middle Dutch · derived fromblâsen“to blow, sound, brag”
5. French · borrowed fromblasé“blasé, jaded”
6. English todayblasé

Borrowed from French blasé (“blasé, jaded”), past participle of blaser (“to blunt, dull”), from Middle Dutch blâsen (“to blow, sound, brag”), from Old Dutch *blāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow; to bleat, cry”). Cognate with German blasen (“to blow”), English blaze (“to blow”), English blast.

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