Blake

Pronunciation

From Middle English blak, blac ("pale"), from Old English blāc ("pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing") and Old Norse bleikr ("pale; white, fair"); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz ("pale; shining"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlē- ("to shimmer, glow"). Compare Scots bleg ("light, drab"). More at bleak.

Full definition of blake

Adjective

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

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").

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) Become pale.----