Blazed
/bleɪzd/noun
Burned with a bright flame or marked a path or tree conspicuously, as the past tense of “blaze.”
Did you know?The verb “blaze” also came to mean marking a trail by cutting a conspicuous strip into a tree, linking fire-bright imagery with deliberate pathfinding.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*bhel-
“To shine, flash, or burn brightly”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*blasō
“A flame or bright fire”
Old English
Old English
blæse
“A torch or flame”
Middle English
Middle English
blasen
“To burn brightly or flame”
15th–16th Century
English
blaze
“To burn with a bright flame; later, to mark a route conspicuously”
Modern English
English
blazed
“Burned brightly or marked a path, as the past tense of “blaze””