bläck

Immediately comparable with Dutch blak (“bald; flat”) and thus possibly an unshifted form. Further probably related with Dutch blaken (“to glow, blaze”), and hence with the root of English bleak, blank.

• IPA^(key): /blɛk/

bläck (masculine bläcke, feminine bläck, comparative bläcker, superlative et bläckste)

1. (chiefly Ripuarian) bare; naked; uncovered; said of body parts, not of people

   Wat lööfs de och met bläcke Been durch der Schnie?

   For what did you run through the snow with bare legs at all?

• nackig

• IPA^(key): /blɛk/
• Homophone: bleck (in accents where where short e and ä are merged)

bläck n

1. ink; pigment or dye for writing, printing etc
2. ink; dark colored fluid ejected by certain squids and octopuses

• bläckfisk
• bläckpenna