blanc
Old French
/blaŋk/
adj
Definitions
- white
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *blancus derived from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (bright, white, blinding, shining) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (shine, burn, scorch, white), *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
- blanch English
- blank English
- *blancus Latin
- *bláncọ Latin
- fligo Latin
- bianco Italian
- blanco Italian
- blank Dutch, Flemish
- blanc French
- blanchir 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
- *blaikaz Proto-Germanic
- *blakaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankaz Proto-Germanic
- *blankijaną Proto-Germanic
- *blīkaną Proto-Germanic
- blacern Old English
- blacian Old English
- blanc Old English
- blāc Old English
- blak Middle English
- blank Middle English
- blanket Middle English
- blonc Middle English
- blakkr Old Norse
- bleikr Old Norse
- blanchir Old French
- branco Galician
- blanc Old High German
- blianc Norman
- blianchi Norman
- bllaunc Norman
- bllànc Norman
- blanc Middle French
- *blank gmw-pro
- *blank Old Dutch
- blikisni Old Dutch
- branco Old Portuguese
- blank Middle Low German
- blank Old Saxon
- blancu Asturian
- блискъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- blanc Friulian
- *blank Frankish
- blanc Old Occitan
- blank Old Frisian
- biancu Sicilian
- jancu Sicilian
- blanc Dalmatian
- blanc Walloon
- blian Bourguignon
- blianc Bourguignon
- blanch Ladin
- bianco Istriot
- biancu Corsican
- blanqueto prv
- biânc Romagnol