blake
English
adj
Definitions
- (UK) Pale; wan; sallow; yellow.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English blak (black) inherited from Old English blāc (pale, shining, wan, pallid, livid, glittering, white, flashing, bright) derived from Old Norse bleikr (pale, yellow, any non-red warm color, pink, whitish) inherited from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (pale, shining, white).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*blaikaz
Gloss
pale, shining, white
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Black English
- black English
- *bʰleyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- bleik Norwegian Bokmål
- blek Norwegian Bokmål
- *blaikaz Proto-Germanic
- blek Swedish
- bleik Norwegian Nynorsk
- blac Old English
- blacern Old English
- blacian Old English
- blæc Old English
- blāc Old English
- blǣc Old English
- blǣċ Old English
- blak Middle English
- bleke Middle English
- bleikr Old Norse
- bleg Danish
- blanc Old French
- bleikur Icelandic
- bleih Old High German
- blëcchazzen Old High German
- bleikur Faroese
- bliat Norman
- *blaik gmw-pro
- *blēk Old Dutch
- *laikka Proto-Finnic
- blajk Westrobothnian
- bleg Scots
- bladje Walloon
- blaih lng