blight
意味
- 胴枯れ病(さび病・黒穂病・べと病など,菌の寄生のために起こる植物の病気)
- (…を)破壊(だめに)するもの(人)《+of(on)+名》
- 荒廃した状態
- …を枯らす,しおれさせる
- 〈希望など〉をくじく,損なう,台なしにする
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The etymology of the noun is uncertain; suggested derivations include the following: * possibly related to Middle English blichening (“mildew or rust on grain, blight”), possibly related to Middle English bliken (“to gleam, shine; to turn pale”), from Old English blīcan (“to shine, sparkle”) (whence modern English blike (“(obsolete) to gleam, shine”); also compare Old Norse blikna (“to grow pallid”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blīkan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”); or * since sense 2.2 refers to a diseased condition of the skin, possibly from Middle English *bleighte, *bleȝte, from Old English blǣcþa (“leprosy”)…