bloi

Old French

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, compare blont.

Adjective

bloi m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bloie)

1. an uncertain color
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland‎^[1], lines 10–23:

     Li reis Marsilie esteit en Sarraguce. / Alez en est en un verger suz l'umbre; / Sur un perrun de marbre bloi se culchet, / Envirun lui plus de vint milie humes.

     The King Marsile was is Zaragoza. He went in a garden beneath the shade; laid himself on a large blonde [or blue] marble rock, around him more than twenty thousand man.

   1. blond, bright yellow

      Synonym: blont

      • 12^th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:

        Yseut, par cest mien chief le bloi.

        Yseult, by my head, the blond.

   2. or perhaps blue

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	blois	bloie	bloi
	oblique	bloi			bloie	bloi
plural	subject	bloi	bloies		bloi
	oblique	blois			bloies	bloi

References

• Joseph Bédier (1927) “bloi”, in Glossaire de la Chanson de Roland‎^[2] (in French)