blakk
Westrobothnian
adjective
Definitions
- pale, light in color
- faded, bleached, which lost some of its original color
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse blakkr (black, dusky) inherited from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (bright, white, blinding, shining).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*blankaz
Gloss
bright, white, blinding, shining
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
白
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *blancus Latin
- blanco Spanish, Castilian
- *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ-, *bhleg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleyǵ-- Proto-Indo-European
- blakk Norwegian Bokmål
- *blankaz Proto-Germanic
- błakkr Swedish
- blakk Norwegian Nynorsk
- blanc Old English
- blakkr Old Norse
- blanc Old High German
- *blank gmw-pro
- *blank Old Dutch
- blank Middle Low German
- blank Old Saxon
- *blank Frankish
- blank Old Frisian