blake

Meaning

Yellow, as butter or cheese.

Synonyms

rockfish

hamlet

crossband rockfish

grey mannock

harlequin rockfish

princess rockfish

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bleɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: blak

Inherited from Old English: blāc

Cognate with Scots: 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.