blu
Maltese
/bluː/
adjective
Definitions
- blue
Etymology
Derived from Italian blu (blue) derived from Old French bloe derived from Frankish *blāu (blue) derived 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
- blu Italian
- blucerchiato Italian
- rossoblù Italian
- bleu 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
- blāo Old High German
- blua Ido
- *blāu gmw-pro
- blau Occitan
- blau Romansh
- blo Romansh
- blov Romansh
- *blāu Frankish
- blew xno
- bleu Ligurian