blewe

English

Etymology

See blue.

Noun

blewe (countable and uncountable, plural blewes)

1. Obsolete form of blue.

Adjective

blewe (comparative more blewe, superlative most blewe)

1. Obsolete form of blue.
   • 1902 (reprint), Francis Bacon, ed. Helen Milman, Of Gardens, page 12:

     ...the White, the Purple, and the Blewe;...

Anagrams

• Belew

Middle English

Alternative forms

• blew, bleu, blue, blwe, blw, blyu

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman blew; from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz. See also blo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛu(ə)/
• Rhymes: -ɛu(ə)

Adjective

blewe

1. blue, azure
2. blue-violet
3. blue-grey; the colour of bruises
4. blue-black

Descendants

• Scots: blew, blue
• English: blue, blew, blewe
  • Tok Pisin: blu
  • → Fiji Hindi: bulu
  • → Shona: bhuluu
  • → Somali: buluug
  • → Swahili: bluu, buluu
  • → Tooro: bururu

References

• “bleu, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-29.

Noun

blewe

1. blue
2. blue textiles
3. (rare) blue pigment

Descendants

• English: blue
• Scots: blew, blue

References

• “bleu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-29.

See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

whit	grey, hor	blak
red; cremesyn, gernet	citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne	yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
grasgrene	grene
plunket; ewage	asure, livid	blewe, blo, pers
violet; inde	rose, murrey; purpel, purpur	claret