Where does “verbleichen” come from?
verbleichen (German) comes from German bleichen, from Middle High German bleichen, from Old High German bleihhen, from Proto-West Germanic *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic blaikijaną, from Proto-Germanic blaikaz, from Proto-Indo-European bʰloyǵ-os, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleyǵ- — to shine.
verbleichen (German): to fade; to die
Ancestry of “verbleichen”, step by step