blond

Meaning

  1. blond; fair; unlike English, not commonly used of anything other than hair (except beer, see hereunder)
  2. bright; not brown or yeasty
  3. (colloquial, offensive, possibly) stupid; naive

Synonyms

hellhaarig

blondhaarig

maisblond

blondgelockt

goldblond

Blonde

flachshaarig

albino

Translations

Frequency

C1
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

blond

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

blund

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/blɔnt/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from French blond, from Frankish *blund, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-. The earlier borrowing Middle High German blunt was rare and had no continuation in early modern German.

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