English word black comes from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁s-, Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg-, Proto-Indo-European *bʰloyǵ-os, and later Proto-Germanic *blakaz (Black, swart. Burnt.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*bʰleh₁s- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
*bʰleg- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | to shine , to shine, burn, scorch, to burn, shine, to shine, white, to burn, shine, scorch |
*bʰloyǵ-os | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
*blakaz | Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) | Black, swart. Burnt. |
*blaikaz | Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) | Pale, white. |
blæc | Old English (ang) | Black. |
blac | Old English (ang) | Pale, shining, white. |
blāc | Old English (ang) | |
bleikr | Old Norse (non) | |
blacian | Old English (ang) | To become pale. |
blake | Middle English (enm) | Black. |
black | English (en) | (British) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.. To apply blacking to something.. To make black, to blacken. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).. [...] |