blæc
Old English
adj
Definitions
- black
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (burnt, black) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (shine, burn, scorch, white).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bhleg-
Gloss
shine, burn, scorch, white
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
白
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Black English
- Blackamoor English
- Blakeley English
- Blakely English
- black English
- blake English
- *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- blakk Norwegian Bokmål
- *blakaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankaz Proto-Germanic
- błakkr Swedish
- blakk Norwegian Nynorsk
- blāc Old English
- blǣc Old English
- blak Middle English
- bleke Middle English
- blakkr Old Norse
- blæk Danish
- blækklat Danish
- blæksprutte Danish
- blakk Westrobothnian
- bleck Scots
- pilikki Kalaallisut, Greenlandic