köken: Inherited from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef, bleu (“blue”), from Late Latin blāvus, from Frankish *blāu (“blue”), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₁-, *bʰlh₁-, *bʰleh₁- (“yellow, grey, blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Old High German blāo (“blue”) (German blau), Dutch blauw (“blue”), Old English blāw…
köken: Etymology tree Frankish *bisunnijabor. Vulgar Latin *bisonium Italian bisognobor. Spanish bisoño Borrowed from Italian bisogno, from Vulgar Latin *bisonium, borrowed from Frankish *bisunnija.
any lizard · the Tsushima ground skink, Scincella vandenburghi
köken: First attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as Middle Korean 도마〮ᄇᆡ〮얌〮 (Yale: twòmápóyyám). Compound of 도마 (doma) + 뱀 (baem, “snake”). The first part may be related to 도막 (domak), 도막도막 (domakdomak).
köken: Unclear. Older șopîrlă, influenced by șopîrcăi (“to joke, be goofy”) and năpârcă (“adder”), possibly from or cognate to Tosk Albanian shapinj (“lizards”, standard Albanian zhapinj), plural of shapi (standard zhapi) as a substratum word. Other less likely theories include a derivation of Ancient Greek σήψ (sḗps) or a Latin *sepinula.