blatzeg

Etymology
The original meaning is “blear, bleary-eyed”, from and. Related dialectal forms show that the -a- in these words is (regularly) derived from an underlying -i-. Blatzen might hence be a doublet of (“to blink”, the natural reaction to dry eyes), from, older also , here with the native vocalism preserved and with -cks- → -tz-, a fairly common development in High German.

Adjective

 * 1) bleary-eyed, blear, having gound in one’s eyes
 * 2) pale, wan
 * 3) drab