hoar

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Of a white or greyish-white colour.
2. (not-comparable, poetic) Hoarily bearded.
3. (not-comparable, obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
4. (archaic, not-comparable) Figuratively, grey-haired with age.

Verb

To become mouldy or musty.

Sinónimos

frost

rime

hoarfrost

hoary

grey

grey-headed

gray

grizzly

gray-headed

white-haired

grey-haired

gray-haired

mist

fog

🌫️

sacred

acclaimed

greyish white

grizzled

grayish

frosted

Traducións

givre

yaşlılık

ehrwürdig

geada

ihtiyar

🧓

yaşlı

🧓

canuto

ak

galaverna

rijp

eski

🧓

eskilik

kır

saygıdeğer

Rauhfrost

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/hɔː/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: hor

Herdado de Old English: hār

Relativo a alemán: hehr

Relativo a gaélico escocés: ciar

Relativo a ruso: се́рый

In summary

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”).