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balke

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

• blake, kabel

From Old Dutch *balco.

balke f

1. (wooden) beam

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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

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

• Rhymes: -alk

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

• bauke

balke (plural balkes)

1. balk, ridge, beam

• English: balk
• Scots: bauk
• Yola: balke

• “balk(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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

balke (plural balkes)

1. Alternative form of bakke (“bat”)

• IPA^(key): /baɫk/

From Middle English balken.

balke

1. to impede, hinder

From Middle English balke, from Old English balca, either from or influenced by Old Norse bálkr (“partition, ridge of land”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô.

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.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 24