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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• Rhymes: -eɪk

blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake) (UK dialectal, Northern England, poetic)

1. Pale, pallid; wan; sallow; of a sickly hue.
2. Yellow, as butter or cheese.
3. Bleak, cold; bare, naked.

• (sickly pale): see also Thesaurus:pallid

• Balke, Kabel, Kaleb, bleak

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blake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaken

• balke, kabel

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blake

1. inflection of blaken:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

blake

1. Alternative form of blak

blake

1. Alternative form of bloken