bloe
Old French
Alternative forms
- blou, bleu, blu, blef, bleve
Etymology
Proto-Germanic *blēwaz, more at blue.
Noun
bloe m (oblique plural bloes, nominative singular bloes, nominative plural bloe)
- blue
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Blanches et verz, bloes et jaunes
- Whites, greens, blues and yellows.
- Blanches et verz, bloes et jaunes
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
Adjective
bloe m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bloe)
- blue
Descendants
- Bourguignon: blieu
- Middle French: bleu
- French: bleu
- Haitian Creole: ble
- → Greek: μπλε (ble)
- → Italian: blu
- → Ladino: blu
- Louisiana Creole French: blé, ble
- French: 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
- Tok Pisin: blu
- → Fiji Hindi: bulu
- → Shona: bhuluu
- → Somali: buluug
- → Swahili: bluu, buluu
- → Sicilian: blu