Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Of a white or greyish-white colour. · Hoarily bearded. · Musty; mouldy; stale. · Figuratively, grey or grey-haired with age; ancient, venerable.
noun
A white or greyish-white colour. · Hoariness; antiquity.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo become mouldy or musty.
From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).
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