bleek
Dutch (Brabantic)
/bleːk/
adj
Definitions
- pale
- bleak
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch blêec inherited from Old Dutch *blēk inherited from *blaik inherited from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (pale, shining, white) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (shine, strike).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰleyǵ-
Gloss
shine, strike
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bleak English
- bleaken English
- bleakish English
- bleakly English
- bleakness English
- bleakonomics English
- bleaksome English
- sunbleak English
- unbleak English
- fligo Latin
- blank Dutch, Flemish
- blekerd Dutch, Flemish
- dood Dutch, Flemish
- doodsbleek Dutch, Flemish
- lijk Dutch, Flemish
- lijkbleek Dutch, Flemish
- blanc French
- *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- bleik Norwegian Bokmål
- *blaikaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankijaną Proto-Germanic
- *blīkaną Proto-Germanic
- bleik Norwegian Nynorsk
- bleikandlet Norwegian Nynorsk
- bleikansikt Norwegian Nynorsk
- blac Old English
- blacian Old English
- blāc Old English
- blǣċ Old English
- bleke Middle English
- bleikr Old Norse
- blanc Old French
- bleec Middle Dutch
- blêec Middle Dutch
- bleih Old High German
- blëcchazzen Old High German
- bleech Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *blaik gmw-pro
- *blēk Old Dutch
- blikisni Old Dutch
- *laikka Proto-Finnic
- blank Middle Low German
- blajk Westrobothnian
- блискъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- bladje Walloon
- blaih lng