blao
Old High German
/ˈblaː.o/
adj
Definitions
- blue
Etymology
Inherited from *blāu inherited from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (blue, dark blue, yellowish-gray, black, grey, dark, gray).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*blēwaz
Gloss
blue, dark blue, yellowish-gray, black, grey, dark, gray
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
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Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *blāvus, *blavus Latin
- blavus Latin
- blāvus Latin
- *bʰl(e)h₁uos Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₁-wos Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰléh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰlēw- Proto-Indo-European
- blå Norwegian Bokmål
- *blēwaz Proto-Germanic
- blå Swedish
- blå Norwegian Nynorsk
- blaw Old English
- blæhæwen Old English
- blāw Old English
- bla Middle English
- blá Old Norse
- blár Old Norse
- blå Danish
- blau Catalan, Valencian
- blár Icelandic
- blāo Old High German
- blua Ido
- bláur Faroese
- *blāu gmw-pro
- *blāo Old Dutch
- blao Old Saxon
- blau Occitan
- blå Westrobothnian
- blau Romansh
- blo Romansh
- blov Romansh
- *blāu Frankish
- blāu Old Frisian
- blew xno