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prettygoodwordsorrel1 - n., a light reddish-brown; a horse of this color, esp. with a light mane and tail. adj., sorrel-colored.
sorrel2 - n., any of various plants with sour, edible leaves, esp. ones of the genus Rumex or genus Oxalis.
Split out into two entries because the two really are different words: both come via Anglo-Norman from ultimately Germanic roots, but in Old French the plants were surele, from Germanic sur meaning (and a cognate of) sour, while the color is from sor meaning dry/barren, a cognate of sere -- both of them getting a diminutive suffix -el somewhere in France. Both are pronounced either SAW-rel or SO-rel interchangeably.
---L.
sorrel2 - n., any of various plants with sour, edible leaves, esp. ones of the genus Rumex or genus Oxalis.
Split out into two entries because the two really are different words: both come via Anglo-Norman from ultimately Germanic roots, but in Old French the plants were surele, from Germanic sur meaning (and a cognate of) sour, while the color is from sor meaning dry/barren, a cognate of sere -- both of them getting a diminutive suffix -el somewhere in France. Both are pronounced either SAW-rel or SO-rel interchangeably.
---L.
