Balken
German (Berlin)
/ˈbalkn̩/
noun
Definitions
- beam, crossbeam
- bar long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart, informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone
- (music) beam horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value
- (heraldiccharge) fess
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German balko inherited from *balkō inherited from Proto-Germanic *balkô (beam, balk).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*balkô
Gloss
beam, balk
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- balk English
- balker English
- balkest English
- balketh English
- balkish English
- balkline English
- balky English
- bierbalk English
- Balkendiagramm German
- Balkenspiralgalaxie German
- Balkon German
- Diagramm German
- Gebälk German
- Schwebebalken German
- Spiralgalaxie German
- schweben German
- balkon Hungarian
- balcone Italian
- balcon French
- *bhelg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰelǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *balkô Proto-Germanic
- balk Swedish
- belka Polish
- balca Old English
- balke Middle English
- bjalki Old Norse
- bálkr Old Norse
- balko Old High German
- *balkō gmw-pro
- *balco Old Dutch
- balke Middle Low German
- balke Old Saxon
- *balko Frankish
- bakun Volapük
- Baulkjen Plautdietsch
- *balk lng
- balko lng
- balko, *balk lng