Dictionary verb er verb *bhel- (1) blicken erblicken
(er verb)

Meanings

1.
to see, to lay eyes on
(The verb is about the moment when you go from "not seeing" to "seeing". And it sounds epic. Think of a blind person seeing a tree for the first time after restorative surgery.)
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Word Family

The core idea of this root was:

shining, flashing, burning

The family is quite divers, but with a bit of mind yoga, the original sense is still visible in most of the offspring.

Here’s a little (incomplete) overview:

  • bleach (“make bright”)
  • blank (“bright, untarnished”)
  • bleak (“pale”)
  • blond (“pale, shining”)
  • blind (result of something shining)
  • blue (originally, it was just about a “shining” color)
  • flame (“the shining one”)
  • blaze (“flashing”)
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