Hare Definition
Origin of Hare
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From Middle English hare, from Old English hara (“hare”), from Proto-Germanic *hasô (compare West Frisian hazze, Dutch haas, German Hase, Swedish hare, Icelandic heri), from *Proto-Germanic *haswaz (“grey”) (compare Old English hasu, Middle High German heswe (“pale, dull”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kas- (compare Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), Latin cānus (“white”), cascus (“old”), Old Prussian sasins (“hare”), Pashto [script?] (soe, “hare”)[Arabic?], Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”)).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English hara kas- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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