why is blue called blue?

Answer 1

because all of the other colour names were taken. - and imagine if blue was called yellow...then we would have navy yellow, sky yellow, royal yellow....geeeeez..Sinatra's song wouldn't rhyme, cardiff's rugby team would be called the yellows.....cops would be known as the boys in yellow.....
it would be such a mess.....just thank god that blue is blue

Answer 2

The modern English word blue (German:blau) comes from the Middle English, bleu or blwe, which came from an Old French word bleu of Germanic origin (Frankish or possibly Old High German blao, "shining"). Bleu replaced Old English blaw. The root of these variations was the Proto-Germanic blæwaz, which was also the root of the Old Norse world bla and the modern Scandinavian word blå. It can also be green or orange occasionally(blue). A Scots and Scottish English word for "blue-grey" is blae, from the Middle English bla ("dark blue," from the Old English blædf*c*).

Answer 3

'Blue' originates from the Heiroglyphic word: 'Bu'. Meaning 'of the water and of the sky'.

Much of the heiroglyphs depicted in egyptian tombs refer to 'Bu' as the transitional 'zone' between earth to the after-life. As such this relationship with the sky is also linked to the sea by way of illustrations depicting the deceased ascending through the sky on the egyptian fish-like deity 'Cord' (or 'Kourd').

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

We stole it from the French bleu, spelled it wrong too. It means blue in English

Answer 5

suppose we cud question that about every single thing in the world!!! Why is the world called a world, why is a computer called a computer etc. Jus the way it all worked out i suppose.

Answer 6

Because it is blue and not red, yellow, black, white, green or any other colour for that matter.

I hope this helps

Answer 7

It isn't.
It's called cyan.
It's only called blue by people who can't spell cyan!

Answer 8

The same reason that red is called red.

Answer 9

because to call it whelk would be rather silly. after all a whelk taste good and blue dont.

Answer 10

we were taught things are that a certain color is that certain color like this color is "blue". if we were taught the color "blue" was "red" we would think blue is red. it is all what we were taught.