bloe

Old French

Alternative forms

blou, bleu, blu, blef, bleve

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *blēwaz, more at blue.

Noun

bloe m (oblique plural bloes, nominative singular bloes, nominative plural bloe)

blue
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
  Blanches et verz, bloes et jaunes
  Whites, greens, blues and yellows.

Adjective

bloe m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bloe)

blue

Descendants

Bourguignon: blieu
Middle French: bleu
- French: bleu
  - Haitian Creole: ble
Norman: bliû (Jersey), bllu, blleu
Walloon: bleu, bleuwe, blåwe
→ Middle English: blew, blewe, bleu, blwe (partially from Old English blǣw))
- English: blue (partially)
  - Tok Pisin: blu
  - → Shona: bhuluu
  - → Swahili: bluu, buluu
- Scots: blue (partially)
→ Italian: blu
→ Sicilian: blu

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.