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sand-blind

  [sand-blahynd]
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–adjective
partially blind; dim-sighted.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME; alter. (assimilated to sand ) of OE *samblind half-blind, equiv. to sam- half- (akin to semi- ) + blind blind

Related forms:
sandblindness, noun
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sandblind 
"half-blind," c.1400, probably alt. (by influence of sand) from O.E. *samblind, the first element from W.Gmc. *sami-, from PIE *semi- (see semi-); cf. O.E. samlæred "half-taught, badly instructed," samstorfen "half-dead."
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