hue的词源

英文词源

hue (n.1): "color," Old English hiw "color, form, appearance, beauty," earlier heow, hiow, from Proto-Germanic *hiwam (cognates: Old Norse hy "bird's down," Swedish hy "skin, complexion," Gothic hiwi "form, appearance"), from PIE *kei-, a color adjective of broad application (cognates: Sanskrit chawi "hide, skin, complexion, color, beauty, splendor," Lithuanian šyvas "white"). A common word in Old English, squeezed into obscurity after c. 1600 by color, but revived 1850s in chemistry and chromatography.
hue (n.2): "a shouting," mid-13c., from Old French hue "outcry, noise, war or hunting cry," probably of imitative origin. Hue and cry is late 13c. as an Anglo-French legal term meaning "outcry calling for pursuit of a felon." Extended sense of "cry of alarm" is 1580s.

来自古英语hyd,来自Proto-Germanic*hudiz,来自PIE*skeu,遮蔽，隐藏，词源同hide,hut.引申词义颜色，色彩，外表。词义演变比较color,来自PIE*kel,隐藏，词源同hole,cell.

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拟声词，常见于短语hue and cry,喊叫，大声抗议。