blate – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of blate

Adjective: blate

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeblater
Superlativeblatest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • You'd say Not them; fine legs, and Ma struggling into her blouse would say You're no blate. Who told you they're fine? [1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 491:]

Adjectives inflected like blate

scarce, smoove, sombre, wholsome, sheene, bolshie, baroque, concrete, seveare, comf'table, shrewde, 'umble, grislie, unsubtle, ungentle, indiscrete, couthie, chavvie, lissome, cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Borrowed from Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of:
2. * Northern Middle English *blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from Old English blāt (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Germanic *blaitaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyd- (“pale, pallid”);
3. * Middle English bleth, bleath (“timid, soft”), from Old English blēaþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak, timid, void, naked”).
4. Cognate with German blassen (“to make pale”), bleich (“pale, pallid”). More at bleak, bleach.

Verbs referencing "blate"

German Adjectives blöd.