köken: According to Watkins, related to Arabic مات (māt, “to die”). However, compare Sanskrit मात (māta, “traversed, measured across”), past participle of मा (mā) (verbal root), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mimáHti, *mimHati, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-; see मिमीते (mimīte, “to mark off”).
köken: Vowel shortening of doof (“deaf”), from Middle Dutch dôof, from Old Dutch *dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“stunned, deaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, be obscured”). Compare Swedish dov (“matt, muted”), English dowf.
köken: * From Proto-Baltic *blāwas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew-, *bʰlēw-, *bʰlāw-, from the zero grade of *bʰel- (“shiny, white”) (whence also Latvian balts (“white”)) with an extra -w. * Some researchers consider blāvs a borrowing from Middle Low German blā, blāw, from Old Saxon blāo (and likewise Lithuanian blãvas a borrowing from Latvian). Cognates include Lithuanian blãvas (“pale”), blausùs…