different between brian vs blake

English

Etymology

From dialectal English, probably variant of brine (“to burn”), from brine (“a burning”), from Middle English brüne (“a burn, a burning”), from Old English bryne (“a burning, conflagration, fire, flame, heat, inflammation, burn, scald, torch, fervor, passion”), from Proto-Germanic *bruniz (“fire, burning”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?renu- (“burn, fire”). Cognate with Scots brin (“a flash”), Scots brin, bryne (“to be on fire, be inflamed, burn”), Old Norse bruni (“fire, burning”). More at burn.

Verb

brian (third-person singular simple present brians, present participle brianing, simple past and past participle brianed)

1. (dialectal, Northern England) To keep fire at the mouth of (as of an oven), to give light or to preserve heat.

Related terms

• brand

Anagrams

• Barin, Brain, Rabin, abrin, bairn, brain

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Noun

brian

1. Alternative form of bryne

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English bl?c (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?k

Adjective

blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake)

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

Synonyms

• (sickly pale): see also Thesaurus:pallid

Etymology 2

From the Middle English bl?ken, the northern reproduction (the form in the south was bl?ken, whence the verb bloke) of the Old English bl?cian (“to become pale”), from bl?c (“shining, white, pale”).

Verb

blake (third-person singular simple present blakes, present participle blaking, simple past and past participle blaked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pale.

Anagrams

• Balke, Kaleb, bleak

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

blake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaken

Anagrams

• balke, kabel

German

Pronunciation

Verb

blake

1. inflection of blaken:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Adjective

blake

1. Alternative form of blak