haar
/hɑː(ɹ)/ · noun
Meaning
- Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
- A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.
- A municipality near Munich, Germany.
Etymology / origin
Attested since the late 17th century, alongside Scots haar (“cold easterly wind; misty wind; cold fog or mist”). Perhaps ultimately from Middle Dutch hare (“cold wind”) or a related Low German word; compare Dutch harig (“windy; foggy, misty”), Saterland Frisian harig (“misty”). Alternatively, perhaps simply a northern English or Scottish variant of hoar, or a borrowing of Old Norse hárr (“hoary”).
- hárr(Old Norse)→
- harig(stq)→
- harig(Dutch)→
- -(nds)→
- hare(Middle Dutch)→
- haar(Scots)→
- haar (English)
- Relations: cog, der, der, cog, cog, der
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