English

hazelly

From hazel + -y or hazel + -ly.

Formed from hazel + -y

Proto-Indo-European *kóslos

Proto-Germanic *haslaz

Proto-West Germanic *hasl

Old English hæsl ‘hazel, shrub’

Middle English hasel ‘the hazel tree, one of its branches, or its wood’

English hazel

Today it means

adj Of the light brown colour of the hazelnut.

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