balke
See also: Balke
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
balke
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of balken
Anagrams
- blake, kabel
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *balco.
Noun
balke f
- (wooden) beam
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: balk
- Afrikaans: balk
- Negerhollands: balk
- → Caribbean Javanese: baleg, balok
- → Javanese: ꦧꦭꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (balok)
- → Indonesian: balok
- → Malay: balak
- Indonesian: balak
- → Papiamentu: balki (from the diminutive)
- → Saramaccan: báíki
- → Sranan Tongo: barki, balk
- → Caribbean Hindustani: barki
- Limburgish: balk
Further reading
- “balke”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “balc”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page balc
Middle English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -alk
Etymology 1
From Old English balca. Cognate with Old High German balko, German Balken (“beam”), Italian balcone (“balcony”).
Alternative forms
- bauke
Noun
balke (plural balkes)
- balk, ridge, beam
Descendants
- English: balk
- Scots: bauk
- Yola: balke
References
- “balk(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Probably cognate with Old Swedish nattbakka, Old English nihtwacu (“night watch”).
Noun
balke (plural balkes)
- Alternative form of bakke (“bat”)
Yola
Etymology 1
From Middle English balken.
Verb
balke
- to impede, hinder
Etymology 2
From Middle English balke, from Old English balca, either from or influenced by Old Norse bálkr (“partition, ridge of land”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô.
Noun
balke (plural baulkès)
- balk, unsawed timber
- (figuratively) impediment
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 6:
- arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.
- to which neither the waters of the sea of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 24 & 116