hoar

Significat

Noun

1. A white or greyish-white colour.
2. Hoariness; antiquity.

Adj

1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
2. Hoarily bearded.
3. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
4. Figuratively, grey-haired with age.

Verb

To become mouldy or musty.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/hɔː/

Etimologia

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”).