Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *blēsanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_blēsaną
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013s-formation of *bʰleh₁-to blow
verbStrong class 7dto blowFrom pre-Germanic *bʰleh₁-s-, an inherited Proto-Indo-European s-formation of *bʰleh₁- (‘to blow’). Traditionally analyzed as a sigmatic aorist Kroonen 2013; more plausibly, in view of its ordinary present meaning and comparison with other lexicalized s-stems, as an old unreduplicated desiderative / s-present (Kölligan 2018).