Proto-Germanic: *balēn, *bēla-n
Meaning: flame
Gothic: *bala- `shning, gray (of body)
Old Norse: bāl n. `Feuer, Scheiterhaufen', bǟla wk. `verbrennen'
Norwegian: bɔl `Flamme'
Swedish: bɔl `Flamme'
Danish: bäldet `kahl', bɔl `Flamme'
Old English: bǟl, -es n. `fire, flame; the fire of a funeral pile, in which dead bones were burned, funeral pile'
Middle English: balled `kahl'
English: bald `kahl'
