blew

See also: Blew

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bl(y)o͞o, IPA(key): /bl(j)uː/
  • (Wales) IPA(key): /blɪu̯/
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  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Homophone: blue

Etymology 1

From Middle English blew, from Old English blēow, from Proto-West Germanic *blē.

Verb

blew

  1. simple past of blow
  2. (now colloquial) past participle of blow

Etymology 2

Noun

blew (countable and uncountable, plural blews)

  1. Obsolete form of blue.

Adjective

blew (comparative more blew, superlative most blew)

  1. Obsolete form of blue.

Cornish

Etymology

Cognate with Breton blev and Welsh blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).[2]

Noun

blew (collective, singulative blewen f)

  1. hair
    Synonym: gols

Derived terms

  • blew lagas (“eyelashes”)
  • blewek (“hairy, long-haired”)
  • folsa blew (“nit-pick, quibble”, verb)
  • liw blew lagas (“mascara”)
  • melyn an blew (“blonde”)
  • minvlew (“moustache”)

Mutation

Mutation of blew
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
blew vlew unchanged plew flew vlew

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman bleu, blew; from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz. See also blo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bliu̯/

Adjective

blew

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: blue
  • Scots: blew, blue
  • Yola: blue

References

Noun

blew

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

Descendants

References

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              blew, blo, pers
             violet; inde              rose, murrey; purpel, purpur              claret

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh blew; cognate with Breton blev and Cornish blew. Of uncertain ultimate origin and lacking Celtic cognates outside of Brythonic. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “rind, bark”).[1] Or, related to Lithuanian plùskos (“hair”) and Proto-West Germanic *fleus (“fleece”), from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

blew (plural, singular blewyn m)

  1. hair, hairs
    Synonym: gwallt
  2. bristles
    Synonym: gwrych
  3. fur
    Synonyms: ffwr, manflew
  4. blades of grass
    Synonyms: blew cae, blew glas
  5. fishbones

Derived terms

  • achub y blewyn a cholli’r bwrn (“to be penny-wise and pound-foolish, to falsely economise”)
  • amranflew (“eyelash”)
  • at y blewyn (“to a hair's breadth, precisely”)
  • blew amrant (“eyelashes”)
  • blew cae, blew glas (“blades of grass”)
  • blew llygaid (“eyelashes”)
  • blew Medi (“gossamer”)
  • blew pen (“head hair”)
  • blew pigog (“stingers of a nettle”)
  • blewiach (“fine hairs, down”)
  • blewog (“furry”)
  • blew'r arffed (“pubic hair”)
  • blew'r gên (“beard”)
  • blewyn da ar (“in good condition”)
  • blewynnog (“hairy”)
  • brethyn blew (“haircloth”)
  • bwrw blew (“to moult, to shed hair”)
  • di-flewyn-ar-dafod (“straight-talking”)
  • dim blewyn ar ei dafod (“straight-talking”)
  • edau flew (“mohair”)
  • ffolicl blewyn (“hair follicle”)
  • goflew (“fine hair, down”)
  • gweld blew ei lygaid (“to mistakenly believe one sees things”)
  • heb blewyn ar ei dafod (“straight-talking, outspoken”)
  • hel blew ceimion (“to wander around”)
  • hollti blew (“to split hairs”)
  • hollti'r blewyn yn bedwar ar ddeg (“to exaggerate, to lie”)
  • i'r blewyn (“to a hair's breadth, precisely”)
  • lled blewyn (“hair's breadth”)
  • manflew (“fur, down”)
  • sbort pen blewyn (“rushlight”)
  • trwch blewyn (“hair's breadth”)
  • tynnu blewyn cwta (“to draw lots”)
  • tynnu blewyn o drwyn (“to provoke, to goad”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of blew
radical soft nasal aspirate
blew flew mlew unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Language. (1931). United States: Linguistic Society of America, p. 239
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “838”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838
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