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English
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.
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Adjective
blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake) (UK dialectal, Northern England, poetic)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Pale, pallid; wan; sallow; of a sickly hue.
- Yellow, as butter or cheese.
1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems,: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, page 13:White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue, […]
1859, Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology: A - D, page 184:[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.
1876, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg: A Novel ..., page 271:Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.
1911, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 340:Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Bleak, cold; bare, naked.
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Dutch
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Verb
blake
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of blaken
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German
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Verb
blake
- inflection of blaken:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English blāc (“pale”).
Adjective
blake
- pale, pallid, yellowish
- 1205, Lay, quoted in the NED:
- Whil heo weoren blake whil heo weoren ræde. Ænne stunde he wes blac while he wes reod.
- 1400, St. Alexius (Cott.), 236:
- so was he lene and blake of hewe.
- 1420, Anturs Arth. li: *: Thayre blees weren so blake. Alle blake was thayre blees.
- 1430, Pallad. on Husb., I, 187:
- The vynes blake awaie thowe take, eke greene And tender vynes kytte.
- 1530, Palsgr., 306: *: Blake, wan of colour.
Etymology 2
Adjective
blake
- Alternative form of blak
Etymology 3
Verb
blake
- Alternative form of bloken