See also: blakā and błąka

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blaka (third person singular past indicative blakaði, third person plural past indicative blakað, supine blakað)

  1. to throw
    Synonyms: kasta, syfta, tveita

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Conjugation of blaka (group v-30)
infinitive blaka
supine blakað
participle (a6)1 blakandi blakaður
present past
first singular blaki blakaði
second singular blakar blakaði
third singular blakar blakaði
plural blaka blakaðu
imperative
singular blaka!
plural blakið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse blaka, from Proto-Germanic *blak, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₂- (to swing back and forth).

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blaka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative blakaði, supine blakað)

  1. (transitive, governs the dative) to flap using something, to flutter using something
    blaka vængjunum.
    To flap one's wings.

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blaka

  1. indefinite genitive plural of blak

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle Low German blak, black, from Old Saxon *blak, from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz, still mentioned in late 19th-century dictionaries, but since then replaced by another 19th-century borrowing, tinte.

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blaka f (4th declension)

  1. (archaic) ink

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Etymology edit

From English black.

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blaka

  1. black

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blaka

  1. blacken
  2. defame, rat on