The story
- Middle English · derived fromoutblowen
- Middle English · inherited fromblow out
- English todayblow out
From Middle English blow out, blowe out, dissimilated forms of earlier Middle English outblowen, ut-blawen (> English outblow), equivalent to blow + out. Compare West Frisian útblaze (“to blow out”), Dutch uitblazen (“to blow out”), German ausblähen and ausblasen (“to blow out”), Danish blæse ud (“to blow out”), Swedish blåsa ut (“to blow out”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishoutblowen all →
outblow
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.