hue

{{11}}hue (1) "color," O.E. hiw "color, form, appearance, beauty," earlier hiow, heow, from P.Gmc. *hiwam (Cf. O.N. hy "bird's down," Swed. hy "skin, complexion," Goth. hiwi "form, appearance"), from PIE *kei-, a color adjective of broad application (Cf. Skt. chawi "hide, skin, complexion, color, beauty, splendor," Lith. ЕЎyvas "white"). A common word in O.E., squeezed into obscurity after c.1600 by color, but revived 1850s in chemistry and chromatography.

{{12}}hue (2) "a shouting," mid-13c., from O.Fr. hue "outcry, noise, war or hunting cry," probably of imitative origin. Hue and cry is late 13c. as an Anglo-French legal term meaning "outcry calling for pursuit of a felon." Extended sense of "cry of alarm" is 1580s.