blake

See also: Blake and blakė

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

Adjective

blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, poetic) Pale; wan; sallow; yellow.

Synonyms

• (sickly pale): see also Thesaurus:pallid

Etymology 2

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English blāken, the northern reproduction (the form in the south was blōken, whence the verb bloke) of the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English blācian (“to become pale”), from blāc (“shining, white, pale”).

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pale.

Anagrams

• Balke, Kaleb, bleak

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Dutch

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Verb

blake

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaken

Anagrams

• balke, kabel

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German

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Verb

blake

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of blaken.
2. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of blaken.
3. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of blaken.
4. (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of blaken.

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Middle English

Adjective

blake

1. Alternative form of blak