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by linguistics__ 1379 days ago
The "black-" in blacksmith, just means black [1], most likely in reference to the iron they worked. As far as I can tell, "Blech" doesn't have a cognate in English. If it did, it would probably by "blek" or "blik".

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blacksmith#English