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)

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)

blue

Descendants

Bourguignon: blieu
Middle French: bleu
- French: bleu
  - Haitian Creole: ble
  - → Greek: μπλε (ble)
  - → Italian: blu
  - → Ladino: blu
  - Louisiana Creole: 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
  - → Tooro: bururu
→ Sicilian: blu

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