Hoar
/hɔːr/noun
Gray-white with age; especially covered with frost or resembling frost.
Did you know?Hoar comes from an old Germanic word for gray-white hair, and its frosty meaning was later extended to the rime that coats the world like a silver spell.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*k̑er-
“to be gray or to turn gray”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*hairaz
“gray, gray-haired”
Old English
OE
hār
“gray, white-haired, venerable”
Middle English
ME
hore
“gray-white; frosty”
Modern English
English
hoar
“gray-white, especially with frost”