blew

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, dialectal) 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
radical soft aspirate hard mixed
blew vlew unchanged plew flew,
vlew*

* after 'th
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), 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. Compare 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), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838
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