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Vinony

Blake

proper noun

  1. male given name
  2. family name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bleɪk/

adj

Etymology: 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.

  1. Yellow, as butter or cheese.

    “White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]”

    “[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.”

name

Etymology: A surname derived from either Old English blæc (“black”) or from Old English blāc (“pale, fair, shining, white”), or as an anglicisation of Irish Ó Bláthmaic.

  1. A surname.
  2. A surname.
  3. A unisex given name.
  4. A unisex given name.
  5. An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.