See also: Balke

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

balke

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of balken

Anagrams edit

Middle Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Old Dutch *balco.

Noun edit

balke f

  1. (wooden) beam

Inflection edit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants edit

  • Dutch: balk
    • Afrikaans: balk
    • Negerhollands: balk
    • Caribbean Javanese: baleg, balok
    • Javanese: ꦧꦭꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (balok)
    • Malay: balak
      • > Indonesian: balak (inherited)
    • Papiamentu: balki (from the diminutive)
    • Saramaccan: báíki
    • Sranan Tongo: barki, balk
      • Caribbean Hindustani: barki
  • Limburgish: balk

Further reading edit

  • balke”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “balc”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page balc

Middle English edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English balca. Cognate with Old High German balko, German Balken (beam), Italian balcone (balcony).

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

balke (plural balkes)

  1. balk, ridge, beam
Descendants edit
References edit

Etymology 2 edit

Probably cognate with Old Swedish nattbakka, Old English nihtwacu (night watch).

Noun edit

balke (plural balkes)

  1. Alternative form of bakke (bat)

Yola edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English balken.

Verb edit

balke

  1. to impede, hinder

Etymology 2 edit

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 edit

balke (plural baulkès)

  1. balk, unsawed timber
  2. (figurative) impediment
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 4-6:
      Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke var hye, arent whilke ye brine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.
      Your fame for such came before you even into this retired spot, to which neither the waters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.

References edit

  • 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