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blanc

“blanc” is an Occitan word. Its meaning in English:

adjective

  1. white

In Occitan

  1. Qu'a pas de color, que reflectís en quantitat egala totas las frequéncias de la lutz vesedoira.
  2. Color de la nèu o del lach.

Etymology

From Old Occitan blanc, from Early Medieval Latin blancus (compare Catalan and French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco, Italian bianco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

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