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hasu

  • adjective
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Grammar
hasu, heasu; adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§436;
Grey, ash-coloured, tawny; cinereus, fulvo-cinereus
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  • Hé of earce forlét haswe culufran

    he let out of the ark a grey dove,

      Cd. 72; Th. 87, 20; Gen. 1451.
  • Hwílum ic onhyrge ðone haswan earn

    sometimes I imitate the grey eagle,

      Exon. 106 b; Th. 406, 21; Rä. 25, 4.
  • Se haswa fugel, 57 b; Th. 206,

      4; Ph. 121.
  • Récas stígaþ haswe ofer hrófum

    grey smoke mounts o'er the roofs, 101 a; Th. 381, 6; Rä. 2, 7.
Etymology
[Icel. höss grey (applied to the wolf and eagle as above): cf. Gen. and Ex. haswed, v. 1723. Grein quotes the following passage from Haupt's Zeitschrift, x. 346 'Hasu wol ursprünglich wolfgrau, und adlergrau, jene gemischte Farbe von goldgelb und grau: bald überwiegt der Gedanke an das Goldgelbe (vgl. blond), bald das Grau der Mischung.']
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  • hasu, adj.