English Explanatory Dictionary

blake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Yellow, as butter or cheese.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. An English surname transferred from the nickname.
  3. A surname from Irish.
  4. A unisex given name.
  5. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  6. A female given name transferred from the surname.
  7. An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.

Pronunciation

/bleɪk/ En-us-blake.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Blake.wav

Word forms

blake blaker more blake blakest most blake Blakes

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *blaikaz Proto-West Germanic *blaik Old English blāc Middle English blake English blake 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.

Related words

pallid

Derived words

Blakean Blake Basin Blake Island Blake River Blake Village
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