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>Of course colour terms evolve and Homer's "metallic" could be "blue"
several generations later. The Slavic languages have several different terms
for "blue", and Old English had no equivalent of Modern English BLUE (which
is a loanword from French).
Is it? French "bleu" is a loanword from Franconian (Dutch "blauw"), as are
several other color names (French<Dutch): bleu<blauw, blond<blond,
blanc<blank, brun<bruin, gris<grijs. Germanic "bl-" seems to have meant
something like "without colour": black, blond, blind, blue...
Marc