Reconstruction:Latin/blavus

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *blāu, from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, gray”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlē-wo- (“yellow, grey, blue”), from *bʰel- (“to shine”). Eventually attested in early medieval Latin as blavus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Proto-Italo-Western Romance) /ˈblaβos/

Adjective

*blāvus

blue

Inflection

First/second declension.

Italo-Western declension of *blāvus
Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	*blávọs	*bláva	*blávọ	*blávi	*blávę	*bláva
genitive	*blávi	*blávę	*blávi	*blavọ́rọ	*blavárọ	*blavọ́rọ
dative	*blávọ	*blávę	*blávọ	*blávis	*blávis	*blávis
accusative-ablative	*blávọ	*blávã	*blávọ	*blávọs	*blávas	*bláva

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: biavo (dialectal, obsolete)
Padanian:
- Romansch: blau, blo, blov
- Venetian: biavo
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: bloe, blou, bleu, blu, blef, bleve
  - Bourguignon: blieu
  - Middle French: bleu
    - French: bleu
      - Haitian Creole: ble
      - → Greek: μπλε (ble)
      - → Italian: blu
      - → Ladino: blu
      - Louisiana Creole French: blé, ble
  - 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
      - Tok Pisin: blu
      - → Fiji Hindi: bulu
      - → Shona: bhuluu
      - → Somali: buluug
      - → Swahili: bluu, buluu
  - → Sicilian: blu
  - →? Ladino: blu
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: blau, blava
- Occitan: blau, blava
Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: blao, blau
  - Papiamentu: blou
- Old Spanish: blavo