k̂as-, k̂as-no-

    k̂as-, k̂as-no-

    English meaning: gray

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “grau”

    Material: Lat. cünus (*cas-no-s) “gray, aschgrau”, pälign. casnar ‘senex”, O.H.G. hasan “gray gleaming, poliert fein”; sabin.-Lat. cas-cus “old” (originally “altersgrau”); O.N. hǫss (*kas-u̯o-), O.E. hasu “graubraun”, M.H.G. heswe “pallid, faint, languid”. In addition die Benennung of Hasen (compare Russ. sěrják “grauer hare” : sěryj “gray”): O.Ind. śaśá- m. (from *śasá-), afghO.N. soe, Pümird. sũi; Welsh ceinach (-ach-extension a *cein = *k̂asnī “Häsin”, Pedersen KG. I 86); O.H.G. haso, with gramm. variation O.E. hara, O.N. heri (eine Ablautsneubildung with Gmc. e seems Nor. Swe. dial. jase = O.N. *hjasi), O.Pruss. sasins m. “hare”, sasin-tinklo “Hasengarn”, PN Sassenpile “Hasenberg”. A extension the stem *k̂asen- (: k̂as-n-o-) and *k̂aseu̯-, k̂asou̯- (: k̂as-u̯-o-) with formantsdho- and zero grade the root syllable wird in Gk. ξανθός “blond, brown” from *k̂s-en-dho- (whether ξαν- amalgamation from *ξεν- and *ξα- =*ξn̥-)? and ξουθός ostensibly “ golden “, whether from *k̂s-ou-dho-, angenommen, but very dubious.

    References: WH. I 156, Hofm. Etym. Gk. Wb. 221, Trautmann 330, Schwyzer Gk. I 329.