bloi
See also: bḷåi
Old French
Etymology
Of Germanic origin, compare blont.
Adjective
bloi m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bloie)
- an uncertain color
- c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland, 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.
- blond, bright yellow
- Synonym: blont
- 12th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:
- Yseut, par cest mien chief le bloi.
- Yseult, by my head, the blond.
- or perhaps blue
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Declension
Declension of bloi
Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Subject | blois | bloie | bloi |
Oblique | bloi | |||
Plural | Subject | bloi | bloies | |
Oblique | blois |
References
- Joseph Bédier (1927), “bloi”, in Glossaire de la Chanson de Roland (in French)