colour (UK), color (US), shade of colour · hue, tint, nuance
çekim: çoğul αποχρώσεις · tamlayan απόχρωσης
eş: χροιά
köken: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek ἀπόχρωσις (apókhrōsis, “adding color”) + the modern suffix -ση (-si), from ἀπό- (apó-) + the root underlying χρώς (khrṓs, “complexion”) + -σις (-sis), with semantic loan from French coloration.
köken: Listed as borrowed from French nuance or English nuance. Some Japanese sources do not indicate a source language and only list the etymon form, as nuance, which is the format in these works to indicate an origin from English. Other references explicitly list both French and English as source languages, or just French. First cited to ふらんす物語 (Furansu Monogatari), a 1909 book by 永井荷風 (Nagai Kafū).
nuance (minor distinction) · nuance (subtlety or detail)
çekim: çoğul niuanse · tamlayan niuansu
köken: Etymology tree French nue Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er French nuer French -ance French nuancebor. Polish niuans Borrowed from French nuance.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin colōr From earlier Old Latin colōs (genitive colōris), from Proto-Italic *kelōs, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”). The nominative singular changed to color in Classical times by analogy with the…
color (US), colour (UK) · color, human skin tone · dye, colourant used for hair
çekim: çoğul farver · tamlayan farves
köken: From earlier farge, from Middle Low German varwe, verwe, from *Old Saxon farwi, *farawi (“colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwō, from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Old High German farawa (“color”) (German Farbe), Old High German faro (“colored”), Latin pulcher (“beautiful, sheen”), Ancient Greek περκνός (perknós, “multicolored”), Old Irish earc (“spotted”).
Hue (a large city in Central Vietnam) · Hue (a city, the capital of Thừa Thiên Huế province, Vietnam)
köken: Likely a non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 化 (SV: hoá), as in the historical name Thuận Hoá (順化). Compare these doublets: hoa vs. huê (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, dated or obsolete) from 花 (MC xwae) as well as hòa vs. huề from 和 (MC hwa).