bjälke
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- a wooden beam
- (heraldry) a fess (horizontal band)
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse bjalki derived from Proto-Germanic *balkô (beam, balk) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bhelg- (plank, beam).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bhelg-
Gloss
plank, beam
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- balcone Italian
- *bhelg- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰelǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- bjelke Norwegian Bokmål
- *balkô Proto-Germanic
- balk Swedish
- bjälkvis Swedish
- bjelke Norwegian Nynorsk
- balca Old English
- bjalki Old Norse
- bálkr Old Norse
- balko Old High German
- *balkō gmw-pro
- *balco Old Dutch
- *balko Frankish
- *balk lng
- balko lng
- balko, *balk lng