The story
- Middle English · inherited fromwhite-heered
- English todaywhite-haired
From Middle English white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white + haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.