blyscan

== Old English == === Etymology === Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ (“burning candle; torch”) or alternatively from *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ (“torch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈblyʃ.ʃɑn/ === Verb === blysċan to redden ==== Descendants ==== English: blush === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “blyscan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “blush”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 102; reprinted 1994.