| Remarks |
'Blue' from Old French 'bleu' from Common Romance 'blavuz from prehistoric Germanic 'blæwaz' from Indo-European 'bhlewos', i.e., originally meant yellow and evolved via white and pale to livid, the color of bruised skin (p. 68 Ref. 11979); 'shark', of obscure origins but appears to have been introduced by members of the Sir John Hawkins' expedition ( a ballad of 1569 recorded 'There is no proper name for [the fish] that I know, but that certain men of Captain Hawkins's doth call it a shark'), ressembles Austrian dialect 'schirk', i.e., sturgeon (p. 471 in Ref. 11979). Also Ref. 4925, 33291. |