An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Blendling

by Friedrich Kluge

Blendling, masculine, ‘mongrel,’ from Middle High German blanden, Old High German blantan, ‘to mix’; Gothic blandan. This Old Teutonic strong verb, meaning ‘to mix,’ is based, according to the laws of the permutation of consonants, on a pre-Teutonic root bhlandh, not found in any other word.