blanquette
French
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) A variety of white grapes.
- (countable) A type of summer white pear.
- (countable) The first clear distillation of a brandy.
- (countable) blanquette white meat stew which is not browned
- (uncountable) silverware
Etymology
Borrowed from blanqueto derived from Latin *blancus derived from Frankish *blank (gleaming, blinding, white, bright) derived from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (bright, white, blinding, shining) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (shine, burn, scorch, white) suffix from French blanc (white).
Origin
French
blanc
Gloss
white
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
白
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- blanc English
- blancard English
- blanquette English
- *blancus Latin
- *bláncọ Latin
- bianco Italian
- blanco Italian
- blanc French
- blanchaille French
- blanchement French
- blanchir French
- chèque en blanc French
- fer-blanc French
- blanco Spanish, Castilian
- *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ-, *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ-- Proto-Indo-European
- *blakaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankaz Proto-Germanic
- blanc Old English
- blanket Middle English
- blakkr Old Norse
- blanc Old French
- blanchir Old French
- blanka Esperanto
- branco Galician
- blanc Old High German
- blanc Middle French
- *blank gmw-pro
- *blank Old Dutch
- branco Old Portuguese
- blank Middle Low German
- blank Old Saxon
- blancu Asturian
- blanc Friulian
- *blank Frankish
- blanc Old Occitan
- blank Old Frisian
- biancu Sicilian
- jancu Sicilian
- blanc Dalmatian
- blan Haitian, Haitian Creole
- blanch Ladin
- bianco Istriot
- biancu Corsican
- blan Antillean Creole
- blanqueto prv
- biânc Romagnol