Why is a greyhound called a greyhound when their a mixture of colours.?

Answer 1

maybe because they are as fast as the Greyhound busses? hahaha.

The name "greyhound" is generally believed to come from the Old English grighund. "Hund" is the antecedent of the modern "hound", but the meaning of "grig" is undetermined, other than in reference to dogs in Old English and Norse. Its origin does not appear to have any common root with the modern word "grey" for colour, and indeed the greyhound is seen with a wide variety of coats.

According to Pokorny the English name "greyhound" does not mean "gray dog/hound", but simply "fair dog". Subsequent words have been derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *g'her- 'shine, twinkle': English gray, Old High German gris 'grey, old', Old Icelandic griss 'piglet, pig', Old Icelandic gryja 'to dawn', gryjandi 'morning twilight', Old Irish grian 'sun', Old Church Slavonic zorja 'morning twilight, brightness'. The common sense of these words is 'to shine; bright'.

Answer 2

Greyhounds are referred to in Old English as grighund. The origin of grig is somewhat debatable but the terms: bright & fair are most often mentioned. Hund, of course, refers to "dog".

Answer 3

Same reason a you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway, or you carry a shipment in a car or a cargo in a ship. The world may never know.

Answer 4

From the old english Grighund it is just a distortion of old name doesnt mean grey