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Old French words from Latin words first recorded in the 6th century

1 Old French word inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 6th century, earliest Latin record first.

1. bloe

   560–636

   from Latin blavus

   It is inherited from Late Latin blāvus (“blue”), a Latin form first found in Isidore of Seville and in glosses of the 8th and 9th centuries. The Latin word is from Frankish *blāo (“blue”), according…

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