ext_252681 ([identity profile] pennyhill.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rone 2009-12-29 02:25 am (UTC)

There are far more compound words with gray, from graybeard to grayfish (as opposed to crayfish), to gray wolf. I'm sure that means something. Both gray and grey seem to come from Old English. Does the OED differentiate them further back - from different languages? Now I'm curious.

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