blae

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What gars ye luck sae blae, bairn?

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  1. adjective Scots Blue.

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  1. Middle English bla, dark blue, from Old Norse blār.

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  1. Scots and North. English; also written blea, bley, blay; from Middle English bla, blaa, the northern dial. form (after Icelandic blār, dark-blue, livid, = Swedish blå = Danish blaa, blue) corresponding to the reg. southern blo, bloo, bloe, blowe, modern English dial. blow, from Anglo-Saxon *blāw (in deriv. blǣwen, bluish) = OFries. blāw, blāu = Middle Dutch blā, blāu, later blaeuw, Dutch blaauw = Middle Low German blāw, Low German blau = Old High German blāo (blāw-), Middle High German blā (blāw-), German blau (whence (from Old High German) Middle Latin blāvus, later Italian biavo = Old Spanish blavo = Provencal blau, feminine blava, = Old French and modern F. bleu, later Middle English bleu, blewe (perhaps in part from Anglo-Saxon *blǣw (as in blǣwen) for *blāw), modern English blue, q. v.), blue, prob. = Latin flāvus, yellow (color-names are unstable in application): see blue.
 

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