different between blote vs blate

English

Verb

blote (third-person singular simple present blotes, present participle bloting, simple past and past participle bloted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

Anagrams

• Bolte, betol, botel

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse blóta, from Proto-Germanic *bl?tan?, cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????? (bl?tan, “to worship”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?lo?d??]

Verb

blote (imperative blot, infinitive at blote, present tense bloter, past tense blotede, perfect tense har blotet)

1. to make a sacrifice (especially a blood sacrifice by heathens)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

blote

1. Inflected form of bloot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

blote (present tense blotar, past tense blota, past participle blota, passive infinitive blotast, present participle blotande, imperative blot)

1. Alternative form of blóte
2. Alternative form of blòte

Noun

blote m or f (definite singular bloten or blota, indefinite plural blotar or bloter, definite plural blotane or blotene)

1. Alternative form of blòte

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?t/

Etymology 1

From Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of Northern *Middle English blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from Old English bl?t (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leyd- (“pale, pallid”) and Middle English bleth, bleath (“timid, soft”), from Old English bl?aþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak, timid, void, naked”). Cognate with German blassen (“to make pale”), bleich (“pale, pallid”). More at bleak, bleach.

Adjective

blate (comparative blater, superlative blatest)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 491:

     You'd say Not them; fine legs, and Ma struggling into her blouse would say You're no blate. Who told you they're fine?

2. (Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.

Etymology 2

Verb

blate (third-person singular simple present blates, present participle blating, simple past and past participle blated)

1. Archaic form of bleat.

Anagrams

• ablet, bleat, table

Dutch

Verb

blate

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaten

Anagrams

• tabel

Scots

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps from Old English bl?t (“pale”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [blet], [blit]

Adjective

blate (comparative blater, superlative blatest)

1. shy, modest, timid, sheepish
2. stupid, easily deceived, dull, unpromising