Etymology

blood red

Today it means: A dark red color. Full definition →

Middle English blodred ← Old English blōdrēad ← Proto-West Germanic *blōdaraud
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  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*blōþaraudaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*blōdaraud
  3. Old English · inherited fromblōdrēad“bloodred”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromblodred
  5. English todayblood red

From Middle English blodred, blodread, Old English blōdrēad (“bloodred”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdaraud, from Proto-Germanic *blōþaraudaz, equivalent to blood + red. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bloudrood (“bloodred”), West Frisian bloedread (“bloodred”), Dutch bloedrood (“bloodred”), Low German bloodrood (“bloodred”), German blutrot (“bloodred”), Swedish blodröd (“bloodred”), Icelandic blóðrauður (“bloodred”).

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