white color · blank, unused · blank, without expression
çekim: çoğul blancs
eş: caucasien, caucasoïde, europoïde
köken: Inherited from Middle French blanc, from Old French blanc, branc, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, a borrowing of Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“bright, white”) (German blank (“polished, naked”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch…
aile: à blanc, ambaville blanc, ambaville blanche, angoisse de la page blanche, ansérine blanche, argent blanc, arme blanche, asphodèle blanc, beurre blanc, blanc bonnet, bonnet blanc
Caucasian (of, from or relating to the Caucasus (region on the border of far southeastern Europe and central Asia)) · Caucasian (of a racial classification; pertaining to people originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Western, Central and South Asia)
foreigner · Caucasian · Englishman, Englishwoman, American
köken: Unknown. The word predates contact with Europeans. A popular folk etymology analyzes the word as hā (“breath”) + ʻole (“not”), referencing the fact that foreigners did not know the traditional honi greeting, which involves simultaneous inhalation. However, such a derivation is unlikely: haole lacks the long ā and glottal stop that would be expected if this were the origin of the word.