Word Origins

-noun

euskara (Basque) ezpata

Spanish espada ‘sword’

-noun

euskara (Basque) kulpa

Spanish culpa

Latin culpa

-adjective

Spanish inocente

French innocent

English innocent

-adjective

Spanish en blanco

French blanc

English blank

-noun

Spanish blanco

French blanc

English blank

-verb intransitive

Spanish blasfemar

English blaspheme

-adjective

Spanish blasfemo

French balasphematoire

English blasphemous

-noun

Spanish blasfemia

English blasphemy

-noun

Spanish blason

English blazon

-noun

Indian Tamil maadi ‘stairs’

euskara(Basque) mailadi ‘bleachers’

-verb

Russian bleyat

English bleat

-adjective

Indian Sanskrit santh ‘holy’, ‘sacred’

euskara (Basque) santu ‘blessed’

-adjective

Indian Urdu mubaarak ‘auspicious’, ‘blessed’.

Ladino berekyetlee ‘blessed with abundance’

Ladino is the language of Sephardic (wandering) Jews in Europe

Sephardic (pronounced as Sefardic) derives from Indian Hindi/Urdu safari ‘travel’

-noun

French benir ‘bless’ verb

Gaelic beannachd

           beannachadh

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Indian Urdu mubaarak  ‘auspicious’, ‘blessed’

Arabic barkat ‘auspicious’, ‘blessed’

Hebrew brakhah  ‘blessing’

-noun

Indian Tamil maasu ‘mess’

Spanish masa ‘blob’

-noun

Russian blok

Spanish bloque

French bloquer

English bloc

-noun

Georgian (Kartuli ena) blok’i

French bloc

English block

-noun

Indian Tamil moodan ‘fool’ (an is just a suffix for nouns)

Greek amadan ’fool’

Gaelic umaidh ‘blockhead’

German der Dummkopf also derives from it. dumm is mirror image of mood

German kopf means ‘head’

-noun

Russian blondiy

French blond

English blonde

-noun

Russian blondiy ‘blond’

Spanish blondina ‘blond lace;

-noun

Indian Tamil irath’tham (am is just a neuter suffix)

Greek erithros

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euskara (Basque) word for it is odol.

English blood derives from it by adding b sound

-noun

Indian Sanskrit jaathi ‘caste’

euskara (Basque) odoljatorri ‘bloodline’

-noun

Arabic blusa.

Russian bloozka

Ladino bluza

Ladino is the language of Sephardic (wandering) Jews in Europe.

Sephardic (pronounced as Sefardic) derives from Indian Hindi/Urdu safari ‘travel’.

Spanish blusa

French blouse

German die Bluse

English blouse

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Indian Urdu qameez ‘long upper garment’

French chemisier ‘blouse’

-noun

Indian Tamil kol (pronounced as koal) ‘stick’

euskara(Basque) kolpe

-adjective

French bleu

English blue

-noun

French bleu

English blue

-noun

Russian blef

French bluff

English bluff

-verb intransitive

Russian blefovat

French bluffer

English bluff

to blush verb intransitive

Indian Tamil irath’tham ‘blood’ (am is just a neuter suffix)

Greek erithrio ‘to blush’

-noun

Russian borov

English boar