Where does “bleat” come from?

bleat (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *blaut, from Proto-Germanic blautaz, from Proto-Indo-European bʰlāw-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel — shiny, white.

bleat (Old English): wretched

Definitions

  1. wretched

Ancestry of “bleat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*blaut—
2Proto-Germanicblautazsoft; exhausted; emptied out; spent; fainthearted
3Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰlāw-—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰelshiny, white

Words derived from “bleat”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰel →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰlāw- →Every word from Proto-Germanic blautaz →