köken: Inherited from Late Latin cānūtus, from Latin cānus. Cognate with French chenu. By surface analysis, cano (“white-haired”) + -uto (“-ed”, “having [the object expressed by the noun]”).
aile: incanutire, semicanuto
Due folte ciocche di capelli, che gli scappavano fuor della papalina, due folti sopraccigli, due folti baffi, un folto pizzo, tutti canuti
sale su per lo stipite di pietra ¶ il bianco gelsomin grato alle pecchie ¶ eguale di candore al crin canuto.
Timor d’infamia e Desio sol d’onore, ¶ Penser canuti in giovenile etate
white · legally obtained by having paid the appropriate taxes · having a white skin colour, light-skinned (see usage note)
çekim: karşılaştırma witter · üstünlük witst
zıt: zwart
köken: From Middle Dutch wit, from Old Dutch *wit, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwittaz. The geminate is unexpected as the usual Proto-Germanic form is *hwītaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytos (“shine; bright”). The geminate is sometimes explained as being the result of Kluge's law, thus from a pre-Germanic *kweyd-nos.
frosty (covered with frost) · grizzled, gray-haired (streaked or mixed with grey) · roan (having a coat of a grey base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
çekim: karşılaştırma deresebb · üstünlük legderesebb
köken: From dér (“frost”) + -es (adjective-forming suffix). The historical sense “whipping bench” is from the sense of roan.
gray (having become grayish white after losing its original color) · gray, gray-haired (having gray hair) · gray (having a light gray or grayish white color, fur, plumage)
çekim: karşılaştırma sirmāks · üstünlük vissirmākais
köken: From Proto-Baltic *śirˀmas, from *ḱr̥-m-os (with a suffix -m), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *ḱer-, *ḱr̥- (“gray color”), whence also sērsna (“frozen snow layer”) (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian ši̇̀rmas, šir̃mas, šir̃vas (“gray”).