blå
Norwegian
/bɽoː/, [bɽo̞ː]
adjective
Definitions
- blue colour
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse blár (blue, livid, dark) 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
- asur Norwegian Bokmål
- asurblå Norwegian Bokmål
- blåaktig Norwegian Bokmål
- blåbær Norwegian Bokmål
- blågrå Norwegian Bokmål
- blåhval Norwegian Bokmål
- blåhvit Norwegian Bokmål
- blåklokke Norwegian Bokmål
- blåkval Norwegian Bokmål
- blålig Norwegian Bokmål
- blålys Norwegian Bokmål
- blåskjell Norwegian Bokmål
- blåsyre Norwegian Bokmål
- blåøyd Norwegian Bokmål
- bær Norwegian Bokmål
- grå Norwegian Bokmål
- hval Norwegian Bokmål
- hvit Norwegian Bokmål
- klokke Norwegian Bokmål
- knallblå Norwegian Bokmål
- konge Norwegian Bokmål
- kongeblå Norwegian Bokmål
- kval Norwegian Bokmål
- lys Norwegian Bokmål
- lyseblå Norwegian Bokmål
- marine Norwegian Bokmål
- marineblå Norwegian Bokmål
- nb Norwegian Bokmål
- skjell Norwegian Bokmål
- syre Norwegian Bokmål
- turkis Norwegian Bokmål
- turkisblå Norwegian Bokmål
- øyd Norwegian Bokmål
- øye Norwegian Bokmål
- *blēwaz Proto-Germanic
- blå Swedish
- blå Norwegian Nynorsk
- 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
- blau Occitan
- blå Westrobothnian
- blau Romansh
- blo Romansh
- blov Romansh
- *blāu Frankish
- blew xno