grey的词源

英文词源

grey: grey: [OE] Grey is an ancient colour term, traceable back all the way to a prehistoric Indo- European *ghrēghwos. From this was descended West and North Germanic *grǣwaz, which produced German grau, Dutch grauw, Swedish grå, and Danish graa as well as English grey. The distinction in spelling between British grey and American gray is a comparatively recent one. Dr Johnson in his Dictionary 1755 gave gray as the main form, and even into the early 20th century it was still quite common in Britain (The Times used it, for instance). Nor is grey by any means unknown in America.
grey: see gray.

来自gray的拼写变体。

greyhound 灵，猎犬

来自古英语grighund. grig, 母狗，拼写受grey影响。hund, 狗，同hound. 大多数这种狗并非灰白色。

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