Etymology

bluesy

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Today it means: Characteristic of, or similar to, blues music. Full definition →

English blues ← Middle English blew ← Anglo-Norman ble
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₁wos
  4. Proto-Germanic*blēwaz
  5. Proto-West Germanic*blā
  6. Late Latinblāvus
  7. Anglo-Normanble
  8. Middle Englishblew
  9. Englishblue
  10. Englishblues
  11. English todaybluesy

From blues + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.