Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryColor, hue. · Color of the face, complexion, coloring. · Consistency, form, texture. · General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look.
From Middle English blee, ble, from Old English blēo, bleoh (“color, hue; complexion, form”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“color, blee”). Cognate with Scots ble, blee, blie (“color, complexion”), Old Frisian blī, blie (“color, hue; complexion”) (whence North Frisian bläy, Saterland Frisian Bläier), Middle Dutch blie, blye (“color”). Doublet of bly.
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