Where does “blas” come from?

blas (Irish) comes from Middle Irish blas, from Old Irish mlas, from Proto-Celtic mlastos, from Proto-Indo-European mel-s-.

blas (Irish): taste, flavour; accent; nothing, anything

Definitions

  1. taste, flavour; accent; nothing, anything

Ancestry of “blas”, step by step

blas traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle Irish blas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Irishblasflavour; savour; taste
2Old Irishmlasflavour; savour; taste
3Proto-Celticmlastostaste
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmel-s-—

via Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰleh₃-bloom, flower
2Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰel-to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰōl-—

via Old Irish blas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Irishblas—

Words derived from “blas”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mel-s- →Every word from Proto-Celtic mlastos →Every word from Old Irish mlas →
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