Etymology Explorer
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Where does “blaken” come from?
blaken (Middle Low German) comes from Old Dutch blakon, from Proto-Germanic blakōną.
Ancestry of “blaken”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old Dutch
blakon
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2
Proto-Germanic
blakōną
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Words derived from “blaken”
blaken
blakig
blake
Kuhbläke
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