Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCommonwealth standard spelling of gray.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁-der.? Proto-Germanic *grēwaz Proto-West Germanic *grāg Old English [Term?] Old English grēġ Middle English grey English grey From Middle English grey, from Old English grēġ (Anglian). The spelling grey reflects the Anglian vowel development, whereas the variant gray stems from the West Saxon form grǣġ (through Middle English gray). Further derived from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”) (compare Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”)).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*gʰreh₁-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiongreyenm
- Inherited-form mentiongrēġang
- Inherited-form mention*grēwazgem-pro
- Cognate mentiongrauwnl
- Cognate mentiongraude
- Cognate mentiongrárnon
- Derivation mention*ǵʰreh₁-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionrāvusla
- Cognate mentionзьрѭcu
- Cognate mentionзретьru
- Cognate mentionžeriùlt
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