hoar – English noun declension

English noun forms of hoar

Noun: hoar
Singularhoar

Sample Sentences

  • His grants are engrafted on the public law of Europe, covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. [1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, 10th edition, London: For J. Owen, and F. and C. Rivington, page 52:]

Etymology

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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'hor'.

Verbs referencing "hoar"

German Nouns Herr, Finnish Nouns herra, Icelandic Nouns herra, Old Norse Nouns herra, Danish Nouns herre, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns herre, Swedish Nouns herre, Old English Nouns hearra.