different between hue vs mue

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hju?/, [çu??]
• (US) IPA^(key): /hju/, [çu], /ju/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /hj??/, [ç??]
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: Hugh

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• hew (obsolete)

Noun

hue (countable and uncountable, plural hues)

1. A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     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 marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

2. 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. (figuratively) A character; aspect.
4. (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.

Derived terms

• hued

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French hu, a hunting cry.

Noun

hue (plural hues)

1. (obsolete) A shout or cry.

Derived terms

• hue and cry

Anagrams

• HEU

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• güe

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodi?.

Adverb

hue

1. today

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húfa.

Noun

hue c (singular definite huen, plural indefinite huer)

1. a hat of soft material (often wool), worn in cold times

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse huga (“think”)

Verb

hue (imperative hu, infinitive at hue, present tense huer, past tense huede, perfect tense har huet)

1. (transitive) To please
   • 1859, Joaquim Gomes de Souza, Anthologie universelle choix des meilleures poésies lyriques de diverses nations dans les langues originales, page 863:

     Moders Røst er den Vuggesang, Der huer os bedst af Alle , Modersmaal bar en himmelsk Klang, Naar Børnene "Moder" lalle.

   • 2017, TruthBeTold Ministry, English Danish Bible No12: Geneva 1560 - Dansk 1931, TRUTHBETOLD MINISTRY JOERN ANDRE HALSETH (?ISBN)

     Da sammenkaldte de tolv Disciplenes Skare og sagde: "Det huer os ikke at forlade Guds Ord for at tjene ved Bordene.

   • 2011, Joan Ørting, Vær åben: energi og glæde i parforholdet, Lindhardt og Ringhof (?ISBN), page 221:

     Må jeg gå til fest med mine eks'er? Der kan være et hav af flere og andre spørgsmål, som vi gerne vil have svar på, så vi ved, hvornår vi er ved at overskride vores partners grænse. Det kan jo godt ske, at partnerens grænser slet ikke huer os.

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /y/

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic, compare Dutch ju

Interjection

hue!

1. yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn right

Antonyms

• dia!

Etymology 2

Inflected form of huer

Verb

hue

1. first-person singular present indicative of huer
2. third-person singular present indicative of huer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of huer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of huer
5. second-person singular imperative of huer

Anagrams

• euh

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].

Noun

hue

1. A gourd

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].

Noun

hue

1. A gourd (plant)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hue

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hue

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húfa.

Noun

hue f or m (definite singular hua or huen, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)

1. a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat

Synonyms

• lue

Etymology 2

Noun

hue n (definite singular huet, indefinite plural huer, definite plural hua or huene)

1. (dialect, metonymically) a head

Synonyms

• hode

References

• “hue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²h??.?/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húfa.

Alternative forms

• huve

Noun

hue f (definite singular hua, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)

1. a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat

   Synonyms: lue, luve

Etymology 2

Noun

hue n (definite singular huet, indefinite plural hue, definite plural hua)

1. (dialectal) alternative form of hovud (“head”)

References

• “hue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?e/, /h?ue/

Alternative forms

• huehue, huehuehue and so on, depending on the supposed length of the laugh

Interjection

hue

1. (Brazil, Internet slang) expressing laugh; hahaha

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mju?/
• Homophones: mew, mu

Verb

mue (third-person singular simple present mues, present participle muing, simple past and past participle mued)

1. (obsolete) To mew; to moult.
   • 1620, Francis Quarles, A Feast for Wormes

     Their nakednesse with sackcloth let them hide,
     And mue the vest'ments of their silken pride

Anagrams

• EMU, MEU, Ume, emu, meu, ume

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my/
• Homophones: mu, mû

Etymology 1

Latin m?t?, see the verb muer

Noun

mue f (plural mues)

1. moulting (UK) / molting (US) (of bird, mammal)
2. metamorphosis (of insect)
3. sloughing of skin (of reptile)
4. casting (of stag)
5. breaking of voice
6. (literary) transformation

Verb

mue

1. first-person singular present indicative of muer
2. third-person singular present indicative of muer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of muer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of muer
5. second-person singular imperative of muer

Etymology 2

See mouvoir

Verb

mue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of mouvoir

Anagrams

• ému

Further reading

• “mue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman mue.

Noun

mue

1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

Etymology 2

From Old French muer.

Verb

mue

1. Alternative form of mewen (“to moult”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse múgi m.

Noun

mue f (definite singular mua, indefinite plural muer, definite plural muene)

1. Alternative form of muge f

Anagrams

• emu