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hue¹

  • /hjuː/ UK
  • [ç(j)u̟ː] UK
  • /hjʉw/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ç(j)ʉw] British, Southern, Standard
  • /hju/ Canada, US
  • [ç(j)u̟] Canada, US
  • /hjʉ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • [ç(j)ʉː] Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like hew, Hugh, Hiw · Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”).

noun hues · hew

  1. countable, uncountable A color, or shade of color; tint; dye. A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of ev
  2. countable, uncountable The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta. In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
  3. countable, figuratively, uncountable Character; aspect. This puts a completely different hue on the matter.
  4. countable, obsolete, uncountable Form; appearance; guise.

hue²

  • /hjuː/ UK
  • [ç(j)u̟ː] UK
  • /hjʉw/ British, Southern, Standard
  • [ç(j)ʉw] British, Southern, Standard
  • /hju/ Canada, US
  • [ç(j)u̟] Canada, US
  • /hjʉ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • [ç(j)ʉː] Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like hew, Hugh, Hiw · Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

From Old French hu or Old French heu, a hunting cry.

noun hues

  1. obsolete A shout or cry.

Hue³

  • /ˈhweɪ/

Rhymes with -eɪ

Where it comes from

From Vietnamese Huế (化).

proper noun Huế

  1. A port city in central Vietnam. Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.
  2. A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.

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