Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/blāu

This Proto-West Germanic 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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blēwaz.

Adjective

*blāu

1. blue

Inflection

wa-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*blāu
Genitive	*blāwas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*blāu	*blāu	*blāu
Accusative	*blāwanā	*blāwā	*blāu
Genitive	*blāwas	*blāweʀā	*blāwas
Dative	*blāumē	*blāweʀē	*blāumē
Instrumental	*blāu	*blāweʀu	*blāu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*blāwē	*blāwō	*blāu
Accusative	*blāwā	*blāwā	*blāu
Genitive	*blāweʀō	*blāweʀō	*blāweʀō
Dative	*blāwēm, *blāum	*blāwēm, *blāum	*blāwēm, *blāum
Instrumental	*blāwēm, *blāum	*blāwēm, *blāum	*blāwēm, *blāum

Descendants

• Old English: blāw, blēo, *blǣ(w) (only attested with i-mutation in blǣhǣwen and blǣwen), possibly in placenames (Blauuefelda , Blafelda, Blowedoune, Blouhulle)
  • Middle English: bloo, blo
    • English: blow
• Old Frisian: blāu, blāw
  • North Frisian: bla, blö
  • Saterland Frisian: blau
  • West Frisian: blau
• Old Saxon: blāo, blāu
  • Middle Low German: blâ, blâw, blauwe
    • Low German: blau, blaag, bloe (dialectal)
      • Dutch Low Saxon: blauw
      • German Low German: blaag, blag, blau, blaug, blo', blao
        • Plautdietsch: bleiw
• Old Dutch: *blāo
  • Middle Dutch: blau
    • Dutch: blauw, blaauw (before 1864)
      • Afrikaans: blou
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: blau
      • Jersey Dutch: blāu
      • Negerhollands: blauw, blou, blau
      • Petjo: blaoe, blauw, blauwe
      • → Lokono: barautho
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: bláu
      • → Indonesian: belau
      • → Papiamentu: blou, blaauw
      • → Sranan Tongo: blaw
        • Aukan: baaw
        • → Caribbean Javanese: blau
        • → Saramaccan: baáu
      • → Warao: hebulau, jeburau
    • Limburgish: blów
• Old High German: blāo
  • Middle High German: blā
    • Alemannic German: blaaw
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: plabe

      Gottscheerish: blūb

    • Central Franconian: bloo, blau
      • Hunsrik: blau
      • Luxembourgish: blo
    • German: blau
    • Rhine Franconian:
      • Pennsylvania German: bloh
    • Vilamovian: błöw
    • Yiddish: בלאָ (blo), בלוי (bloy)
  • → Spanish: blao
• → Old French: bloe, blou, bleu, blu, blef, bleve
  • Bourguignon: blieu
  • Champenois: bieu
  • Middle French: bleu
    • French: bleu
      • Haitian Creole: ble
      • → Greek: μπλε (ble)
      • → Italian: blu
      • → Ladino: blu
      • Louisiana Creole: blé, ble
    • → Dutch: 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 (obsolete)
      • Tok Pisin: blu
      • → Fiji Hindi: bulu
      • → Shona: bhuluu
      • → Somali: buluug
      • → Swahili: bluu, buluu
      • → Tooro: bururu
  • → Sicilian: blu
• → Vulgar Latin: blāvus (see there for further descendants)

See also

Colors in Proto-West Germanic · *farwō (layout · text)

*blaik, *blank, *hwīt, *blas	*falu, *grāu, *hasu, *grīs, *hair	*blak, *swart
*raud	*brūn, *erp, *dunn/dusn	*gelu
*grōnī	*grōnī
	*blāu	*blāu
*blāu	*purpurā