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: * 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…
bleary-eyed, blear, having gound in one’s eyes · pale, wan · drab
çekim: karşılaştırma méi blatzeg · üstünlük am blatzegsten
köken: The original meaning is “blear, bleary-eyed”, from Blatz (“gound, sleepy dust”) and blatzen (“to be blear, goundy”). Related dialectal forms show that the -a- in these words is (regularly) derived from an underlying -i-. Blatzen might hence be a doublet of blécksen (“to blink”, the natural reaction to dry eyes), from Bléck (“look, glance”), older also Black, here with the native vocalism…
Etimoloji
Etymology tree German mattbor. Polish mat Proto-Indo-European *-usder. Proto-Indo-European *-osder. Proto-Slavic *-ovъ Old Polish -owy Polish -owy Polish matowy From mat + -owy.