"blake" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-us-blake.ogg [US] Forms: blaker [comparative], more blake [comparative], blakest [superlative], most blake [superlative]
Rhymes: -eɪk Etymology: From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|blak}} Middle English blak, {{m|enm|blac||pale}} blac (“pale”), {{inh|en|ang|blāc||pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing}} Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”), {{der|en|non|bleikr||pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color}} Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*blaikaz||pale; shining}} Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”), {{cog|sco|bleg||light, drab}} Scots bleg (“light, drab”), {{l|en|bleak}} bleak Head templates: {{en-adj|er|more}} blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake)
  1. Pale, pallid; wan; sallow; of a sickly hue. Tags: Northern-England, UK, dialectal, poetic Categories (topical): Colors Synonyms (sickly pale): pallid
    Sense id: en-blake-en-adj-U-v0ZzFd Disambiguation of Colors: 79 18 4 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Northern England English Disambiguation of British English: 67 10 23 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 1 3 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 94 1 5 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 93 1 6 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 8 46 0 2 14 9 9 9 2 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 47 0 2 16 10 10 7 2 Disambiguation of Northern England English: 92 1 8 Disambiguation of 'sickly pale': 95 0 5
  2. Yellow, as butter or cheese. Tags: Northern-England, UK, dialectal, poetic
    Sense id: en-blake-en-adj-h0baF69e
  3. Bleak, cold; bare, naked. Tags: Northern-England, UK, dialectal, poetic
    Sense id: en-blake-en-adj-rfcXzDyM

Inflected forms

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