Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryWithout color; pale; pallid. · Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. · Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
From Middle English bleke (also bleche, whence the English doublet bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”), from Old English blǣc, blǣċ, blāc (“bleak, pale, pallid”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale, whitish”), all from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”). Cognate with Dutch bleek (“pale, wan, pallid”), Low German blek (“pale”), German bleich (“pale, wan, sallow”), Danish bleg (“pale”), Swedish blek (“pale, pallid”), Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek (“pale”), Norwegian Nynorsk bleik (“pale”), Faroese bleikur (“pale”), Icelandic bleikur (“pale, pink”).
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- Root classification mention*bʰleyǵ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionblekeenm
- Doublet mentionbleachen · pale, bleak
- Inherited-form mentionblakenm
- Inherited-form mentionblǣcang
- Derivation mentionbleikrnon
- Inherited-form mention*blaikazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionbleeknl
- Cognate mentionbleknds
- Cognate mentionbleichde
- Cognate mentionblegda
- Cognate mentionbleksv
- Cognate mentionbleiknb
- Cognate mentionbleiknn
- Cognate mentionbleikurfo
- Cognate mentionbleikuris
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