blu
Italian (Fiorentino)
[blu]
adjective
Definitions
- blue
Etymology
Borrowed from French bleu (blue, billiard chalk) derived from Middle French bleu derived from Old French bleve, blou (blue, discoloured, pallid, wan) derived from Frankish *blāu (blue) derived from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (blue, dark blue, yellowish-gray, black, grey, dark, gray) derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl(e)h₁uos.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰl(e)h₁uos
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *blāvus, *blavus Latin
- blavus Latin
- blāvus Latin
- bleu German
- biavo Italian
- blucerchiato Italian
- cerchiato Italian
- rosso Italian
- rossoblù Italian
- sbiadire Italian
- bleuke Dutch, Flemish
- antibleu French
- bleu French
- bleuet French
- bleusaille French
- bleuâtre French
- *bʰl(e)h₁uos Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰleh₁-wos Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰléh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰlēw- Proto-Indo-European
- *blēwaz Proto-Germanic
- blá Old Norse
- blár Old Norse
- bleve, blou Old French
- bloe Old French
- blöe, bloe Old French
- blau Catalan, Valencian
- bleu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μπλε Greek (modern)
- blāo Old High German
- blua Ido
- bleu Middle French
- *blāu gmw-pro
- blau Occitan
- blu Maltese
- blau Romansh
- blo Romansh
- blov Romansh
- *blāu Frankish
- blöv Volapük
- blew xno
- bleu Ligurian
- ble Haitian, Haitian Creole
- bulo Wolof
- bulɛ Nzadi