The story
- Old English · inherited from*sāmblind“half-blind”
- Middle English · inherited fromsandblynde
- English todaysandblind
From Middle English sandblynde, alteration (due to association with sand) of *samblynde (“half-blind”), from Old English *sāmblind (“half-blind”), from sam- (“half-”) + blind (“blind”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.