hoar

hoar
hoar (adj.) O.E. har "hoary, gray, venerable, old," the connecting notion being gray hair, from P.Gmc. *haira (Cf. O.N. harr "gray-haired, old," O.S., O.H.G. her "distinguished, noble, glorious," Ger. hehr), from PIE *kei-, source of color adjectives (see HUE (Cf. hue) (1)). German also uses the word as a title of respect, in Herr. Of frost, it is recorded in O.E., perhaps expressing the resemblance of the white feathers of frost to an old man's beard. Used as an attribute of boundary stones in Anglo-Saxon, perhaps in reference to being gray with lichens, hence its appearance in place-names.

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