blenny
English
noun
Definitions
- A , any of various marine fishes from the suborder Blennioidei or order that are generally small and elongated which dwell on the sea floor, including scaled and scaleless forms and dramatically divergent appearance, in several families.
- A number of fish of similar appearance not closely related.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin blennius derived from Ancient Greek βλεννός (mucus, slime) derived from Proto-Indo-European *mel- (soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mel-
Gloss
soft, deceive, tender, weak, wrong, bad, strong, limb, dirty, dark, red, cause chaos, big, hesitate, better, be late
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
暗, 闇, 冥
Emoji
🍦 🔈️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- blenno- English
- eel English
- eelblenny English
- mollification English
- mulierose English
- blennius Latin
- blennus Latin
- emolliēns Latin
- male Latin
- male habitus Latin
- malus Latin
- mollis Latin
- molluscus Latin
- muliebris Latin
- mulier Latin
- muliēbris Latin
- βλεννός Ancient Greek
- μάλα Ancient Greek
- μέλος Ancient Greek
- μαλθακός Ancient Greek
- μᾶλλον Ancient Greek
- *(h₂)moldus Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)mal- Proto-Indo-European
- *mel- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey- Proto-Indo-European
- *mailą Proto-Germanic
- *moľь Proto-Slavic
- melc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- *malnos Proto-Celtic
- *meldo Proto-Celtic
- *mello- Proto-Celtic
- *malos Proto-Italic
- melas Lithuanian
- *mel(n)- bat-pro