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
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Blankshire English
- Blanksville English
- Blanktown English
- Blankville English
- blanc English
- blancard English
- blank English
- blankable English
- blanken English
- blanker English
- blankish English
- blankless English
- blankly English
- blankness English
- nonblank English
- photoblank English
- reblank English
- unblank English
- *blancus Latin
- *bláncọ Latin
- fligo Latin
- Plenk German
- blankpoliert German
- blankziehen German
- poliert German
- spiegelblank German
- spiegeln German
- ziehen German
- biancastro Italian
- biancazzurro Italian
- biancheggiare Italian
- biancheria Italian
- bianchezza Italian
- bianchiccio Italian
- bianchire Italian
- bianchissimo Italian
- biancicare Italian
- bianco Italian
- biancoso Italian
- codibianco Italian
- culbianco Italian
- sbiancare Italian
- blank Dutch, Flemish
- blanc French
- blanchaille French
- blanchement French
- blanchir French
- blanquette French
- chèque en blanc French
- fer-blanc French
- ajoblanco Spanish, Castilian
- aliblanco Spanish, Castilian
- blanco Spanish, Castilian
- blancor Spanish, Castilian
- blancura Spanish, Castilian
- blancuzco Spanish, Castilian
- blanquear Spanish, Castilian
- blanquecino Spanish, Castilian
- blanquillo Spanish, Castilian
- blanquito Spanish, Castilian
- coliblanco Spanish, Castilian
- coroniblanco Spanish, Castilian
- culiblanco Spanish, Castilian
- *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ-, *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ-- Proto-Indo-European
- branco Portuguese
- *blaikaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankijaną Proto-Germanic
- *blīkaną Proto-Germanic
- ブランク Japanese
- blanc Old English
- blank Middle English
- blakkr Old Norse
- blanc Old French
- blanka Esperanto
- blanc Old High German
- blanc Middle High German
- blanc Middle French
- *blank gmw-pro
- *blank Old Dutch
- blikisni Old Dutch
- blank Middle Low German
- blank Old Saxon
- блискъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- *blank Frankish
- blank Old Frisian
- blanku Papiamentu
- blan Haitian, Haitian Creole
- biancu Sardinian
- blan Antillean Creole