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)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, poetic) Pale; wan; sallow; yellow.

• (sickly pale): see also Thesaurus:pallid

From the Middle English blāken, the northern reproduction (the form in the south was blōken, whence the verb bloke) of the Old English blācian (“to become pale”), from blāc (“shining, white, pale”).

blake (third-person singular simple present blakes, present participle blaking, simple past and past participle blaked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pale.

• Balke, Kaleb, bleak

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blake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaken

• balke, kabel

blake

1. First-person singular present of blaken.
2. First-person singular subjunctive I of blaken.
3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of blaken.
4. Imperative singular of blaken.

blake

1. Alternative form of blak