blank

German (Berlin)

/blaŋk/

adj
Definitions
  • (archaic) bright
  • spotlessly clean; shining; polished
  • bare; naked; uncovered
  • pure; sheer
  • (colloquial) broke; out of money
  • (card games) being a player’s last one of a respective grouping of cards (which means that the card is unprotected when the player must follow suit in trick-taking games)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German blanc inherited from Old High German blanc (shining, bright) inherited from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (bright, white, blinding, shining) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (shine, strike).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*bʰleyǵ-

Gloss

shine, strike

Concept
Semantic Field

The physical world

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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