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Blust, masculine (Suabian and Swiss, bluešt, neuter), from the equivalent Middle High German bluost, feminine, ‘blossom'; Gothic *blôs-ts is connected perhaps with the Aryan root bhlôs, ‘to bloom,’ preserved in Anglo-Saxon blôs-tma, Latin flôrere (for *flôsere). See Blume and Blüte.