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Where does “blueberrylike” come from?

blueberrylike (English) comes from English blueberry, from English Blue, from Middle English blēwe, from Anglo-Norman blew, from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, from Latvian blāvus, from Old High German blāo — yellow, blond, grey.

blueberrylike (English): Resembling or characteristic of a blueberry

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a blueberry

Ancestry of “blueberrylike”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishblueberryAn edible round berry, belonging to the...
2EnglishBlueA letterman at Oxford or Cambridge; A member of...
3Middle Englishblēwe—
4Anglo-Normanblewblue
5Middle Frenchbleublue
6Old Frenchblöe—
7Latvianblāvusaccusative plural masculine form of blāvs
8Old High Germanblāoblue, dark, grey; blue; yellow
9Proto-West Germanicblāublue
10Proto-Germanicblēwazblue; a dark bluish or grey colour, black
11Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰlēw-yellow, blond, grey
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