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PURBLIND
Definition of PURBLIND
adjective
Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.
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Where it comes from
The adjective is derived from Middle English purblind (“(adjective) completely blind; blind in one eye; near-sighted; (noun) near-sighted animal, specifically a hare”) [and other forms], possibly from pur, pure (“completely, entirely”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to be clean; pure”); influenced by pur- (prefix meaning ‘completely; forward; in advance’)) + blind (“sightless, blind”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to blend, mix up; to make cloudy or opaque”)). Adjective sense 4.1 (“completely blind”) was the original sense. The senses denoting partial blindness are possibly the result of confusion of the first element pur- with poor, perhaps through folk etymology. (Compare parboil regarding per versus pars.) The noun and verb are derived from the adjective.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
8.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,623)
How it is built
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PURBLIND in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 19 boards so far. 36 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 30, 19 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First found by a player on Day 30, 19 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PURBLIND starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read BDILNPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PURBLI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 30
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