blake

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Yellow, as butter or cheese. Northern-England,UK,dialectal,poetic,uncommon
    — White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]

词形变化

blaker comparative more blake comparative blakest superlative most blake superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der.
Proto-Germanic *blaikaz
Proto-West Germanic *blaik
Old English blāc
Middle English blake
English blake
From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.
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