bloe

Old French

Alternative forms

• blou, bleu, blu, blef, bleve

Etymology

From Late Latin blāvus. More at English blue.

Noun

bloe oblique singular, m (oblique plural bloes, nominative singular bloes, nominative plural bloe)

1. blue
   • c. 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)

1. blue

Descendants

• Bourguignon: blieu
• Champenois: bieu
• Middle French: bleu
  • French: bleu
    • Haitian Creole: ble
    • → Greek: μπλε (ble)
    • → Italian: blu
    • → Ladino: blu
    • Louisiana Creole: blé, ble
  • → Dutch: bleu
• Norman: bliû (Jersey), bllu, blleu
• Walloon: bleu, bleuwe, blåwe
• → Middle English: blewe, blew, bleu, blue, blwe, blw, blyu
  • Scots: blew, blue
  • English: blue, blew, blewe (obsolete)
    • Tok Pisin: blu
    • → Fiji Hindi: bulu
    • → Shona: bhuluu
    • → Somali: buluug
    • → Swahili: bluu, buluu
    • → Tooro: bururu
• → Sicilian: blu