Dark blue or bluish in color; a Scottish and Northern English dialect word for the color of blueberries or dark blue sky.
From Old Norse 'blār' (blue), related to Old English 'blǽw'. The word came into Northern English through Scandinavian influence and persists in Scottish dialect.
This ancient word for 'blue' from Norse traders still survives in Scottish dialect—it's a linguistic fossil showing how Vikings and Scandinavians left their language embedded in British English!
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