hazel
English
Etymology
From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-Germanic *hasalaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *koselos (“hazel”). Cognate with Dutch hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel-tree, hazelwood”), Irish coll (“hazel”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hazel (usually uncountable, plural hazels)
- (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
- (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
- (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
- (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
- hazel:
- (mining, countable) freestone
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)
Quotations
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Shrew, Scene I
- Kate, like the hazel-twig,
- Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue
- As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernels.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
hazelnut — see hazelnut
tree / shrub
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wood
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colour
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Adjective
hazel
Translations
colour
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See also
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch hasel. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
Noun
hazel m (plural hazels)
- (rare, dated, literary) hazel
- 1822, Jacob Geel, Proeven eener navolging van de Lady of the Lake van Walter Scott, vol. 1, in Magazijn voor Wetenschappen, Kunsten en Letteren, vol. 2, page 11.
- Het hert dronk ’s avonds aan de kreek, / Waar ’t maanlicht ſpeelt in Monans beek: / En vleit zich, tot de morgen keer’, / In diepen ſchaâuw van hazels nêer;
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- 1894, De Sociale gids. Socialistisch tijdschrift voor Noord- en Zuid-Nederland, page 322.
- —Mijn oom, de tuinman, zegt, dat 't juist niet zacht opvolgend van kleur moet zijn, maar scherp tegenovergesteld aan elkander en daarom zwarte hazels nevens witte acers, om den ander . . . . dat noemt hij »gemengde« stijl.
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- 1924 August 27, Kees van Bruggen, "Het bad aan de Blauwe Zee. Clytemnestra, Klein Duimpje en de laatsten der Azteken", Algemeen Handelsblad (evening edition, part 2), vol. 97, no. 31420, page 5.
- Tusschen elzen en hazels in allerlei fatsoen slingeren zich de druiven, reeds zwaar om te oogsten, het wachten is op een beetje aanhoudende zon, anders wordt de wijn te schraal.
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- 1925 February 22, Reinder Jakobus de Stoppelaar, "De Hazelaar", Het Vaderland (morning edition), B, page 1.
- Als mijn hazels bloeien bereid ik mij zelven het genoegen van de struiken te schudden tot het gouden stof op en wegdwarrelt en neervalt met gele stippeling op mijn jas, mijn pet, mijn handen.
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- Synonym: hazelaar
- 1822, Jacob Geel, Proeven eener navolging van de Lady of the Lake van Walter Scott, vol. 1, in Magazijn voor Wetenschappen, Kunsten en Letteren, vol. 2, page 11.
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin facere, active infinitive of the verb faciō (“I do, I make”). Cognate with Italian fare, French faire, Spanish hacer, Asturian facer, facere, Fala fel and Portuguese fazer
Pronunciation
Verb
hazel
Quotations
- "Esta sala de tanta estoria molinera es gastá ogañu pa hazel ritus paganus, pos se vein un pentagrama canteau pabaxu conas letras ebreas enas cincu puntas pintau ena paré i ala isquierda un oju de Oru." Cúyu pan esgarras? - "El molinu las Pilas dela Conquista la Sierra"
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