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
köken: From Proto-Turkic *sūr. Compare to Kazakh сұр (sūr, “light brown”), Kyrgyz сур (sur), Karaim sur (“reddish brown”), Kumyk сюр (sür, “light brown”), Southern Altai сур (sur), Bashkir һоро (horo), Uzbek sur, Turkmen sūr, etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *sūr. Compare to Kazakh сұр (sūr, “light brown”), Kyrgyz сур (sur), Karaim sur (“reddish brown”), Kumyk сюр (sür, “light brown”), Southern Altai сур (sur), Tatar соры (sorı), Uzbek sur, Turkmen sūr, etc.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese cĩisa (“ashes”), from a Vulgar Latin root *cinisia (“ashes (cold or warm)”), from Latin cinis (“cold ashes”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”). Cognate with Galician cinza, Spanish ceniza and Romanian cenușă.
grey, gray (colour) · grey, gray, dreary, gloomy · grey, gray (having an indistinct or disputed quality)
çekim: karşılaştırma harmaampi · üstünlük harmain
köken: From Proto-Finnic *harmaga, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *śirˀmas (compare Lithuanian širmas). Erzya шерже (šerže, “hoar, gray hair”) borrowed from the same root.
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.