blake

Meanings

Adjective

Verb

Origin

  • From Middle English blak, blac, from Old English blāc ("pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing") and Old Norse bleikr ("pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color"); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz ("pale; shining"). Compare Scots bleg ("light, drab"). More at bleak.
  • From the Middle English blaken, the northern reproduction (the form in the south was bloken) of the Old English blācian ("to become pale"), from blāc.

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