blake

Significat (Anglès)

Yellow, as butter or cheese.

Sinònims

rockfish

hamlet

crossband rockfish

grey mannock

harlequin rockfish

princess rockfish

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bleɪk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: blak

Heretat de anglès antic: blāc

Cognat amb escocès: bleg

In summary

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.