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Blake

//bleɪk// adj, name

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Yellow, as butter or cheese. Northern-England, UK, dialectal, poetic, uncommon

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

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.; An English surname transferred from the nickname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A surname.; A surname from Irish. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A unisex given name.; A male given name transferred from the surname. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A unisex given name.; A female given name transferred from the surname. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    An unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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