greyhound: [OE] Most greyhounds are not grey – and there is no etymological reason why they should be. For the element grey- in their name has no connection with the colour-term grey. It comes from an unrecorded Old English *grīeg ‘bitch’, a relative of Old Norse gr?y ‘bitch’.
greyhound (n.)
Old English grighund (West Saxon), greghund (Anglian) "greyhound," probably from grig- "bitch," a word of unknown etymology, + hund "dog" (see hound (n.)). The first element in the name apparently has nothing to do with color, as most of the hounds are not gray, but the exact sense of it must have been early forgotten, as it has been long associated with the color in popular imagination. In some Middle English forms it appears to be conformed to Grew, an old word for "Greek" (from Old French Griu). The Old Norse form of the word is preserved in Hjalti's couplet that almost sparked war between pagans and Christians in early Iceland:
Vilkat goe geyja grey tykkjumk Freyja
I will not blaspheme the gods, but I think Freyja is a bitch
例文
1. In Norman England，the greyhound was a symbol of nobility.
霊犭はノルマン時代のイングランドが高貴な象徴だった。
2.Selective breeding may result in a greyhound running faster and seeing better than a wolf.
選択**配合繁殖はオオカミより速く、視力の良い霊を育てる可能性がある。
3.He gaged a costly ring upon the speed of his greyhound .
彼は猟犬の速度を示すために高価な指輪を押した。
4.You can find Greyhound almost in every city,big or small.
彼らも窓から町や町を見ることができるが、毎日列車に乗っている乗客は少ない。
5.In the early 1900 s，huge crowds would gather to watch greyhound coursing.