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
  - → Greek: μπλε (ble)
  - → Italian: blu
Norman: bliû (Jersey), bllu, blleu
Walloon: bleu, bleuwe, blåwe
→ Middle English: blewe, blew, bleu, blue, blwe, blw, blyu (partially from Old English blǣw)
- Scots: blew, blue
- English: blue
  - Tok Pisin: blu
  - → Fiji Hindi: bulu
  - → Shona: bhuluu
  - → Somali: buluug
  - → Swahili: bluu, buluu
→ Sicilian: blu

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