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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for August 18, 1999
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hoary [adj. HOR-ee]
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Something that is hoary is colored gray or white because of old age,
or it is covered with gray or white hairs, or it is something that is
extremely ancient, inspiring veneration. Example: "The hoary leaves
of dusty miller bear thousands of tiny hairs to conserve water."
Today the word carries two primary senses: color and age. The
original sense was the color, in the ancient Indo-European root
koi-. From that root came the German color-related heiter (bright)
and age-related herr (mister), as well as the Dutch mijnheer (sir,
mister).
The source in English was Old English har, which led to hoar. That
word is part of hoarfrost (ice crystals condensed from the air that
form a white coating). The -y ending was added about five hundred
years ago, but both forms of the word are still correct.
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