# balke
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

balke
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of balken

### Anagrams

* blake, kabel

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *balco.

### Noun

balke f
* (wooden) beam

#### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* 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

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbalk(ə)/
* Rhymes: -alk

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* bauke

#### Noun

balke (plural balkes)
* balk, ridge, beam

##### Descendants

* English: balk
* Scots: bauk
* Yola: balke

##### References

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

balke (plural balkes)
* Alternative form of bakke (“bat”)

## Middle High German
### Etymology

From Old High German balko, balcho, from Proto-West Germanic *balkō, from Proto-Germanic *balkô.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈbalkə/

### Noun

balke m
* beam, balk
    Sô blîbe er stân ûf mînes hërzen balken.(please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Descendants

* German: Balken
** → Kashubian: balka
** → Slovincian: balka
* → Old Polish: balka, balk
** Polish: belka, bałk, belk, bełk, bełka (Middle Polish), balk, balka, bałek, bałka, belek (obsolete)
** Silesian: bŏlka, balek, balk, belek, bŏlek

### References

* “balke” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.

## Yola
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /balk/

### Etymology 1

From Middle English balken.

#### Verb

balke
* to impede, hinder

### Etymology 2

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

balke (plural baulkès)
* balk, unsawed timber
* (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

* 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