Etymology

greyish

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English grey ← Middle English grey ← Old English grēġ
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰreh₁-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*grēwaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*grāg
  4. Old English[Term?]
  5. Old Englishgrēġ
  6. Middle Englishgrey
  7. Englishgrey
  8. English todaygreyish

From grey + -ish.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.