hay
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi, from Proto-Germanic *hawją (compare West Frisian hea, Dutch hooi, German Heu, Norwegian høy), from *hawwaną (“to hew, cut down”). More at hew.
NounEdit
hay (countable and uncountable, plural hays)
- (uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, OCLC 1064186951:
- Make hay while sunne shines.
- 1857, Charles Louis Flint, Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise […]
- Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.
- (countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
- (slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
- 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
- I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20.
- 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
- A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
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VerbEdit
hay (third-person singular simple present hays, present participle haying, simple past and past participle hayed)
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English haye, heye, a conflation of Old English heġe (“hedge, fence”) and Old English ġehæġ (“an enclosed piece of land”).
NounEdit
hay (plural hays)
- (obsolete) A hedge.
- (obsolete) A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.
- (obsolete) An enclosure, haw.
- (obsolete) A circular country dance.
- 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, OCLC 837836359, (please specify the page):
- My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes,
Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay,
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- I’ll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play
On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.
Etymology 3Edit
From the sound it represents, by analogy with other letters such as kay and gay. The expected form in English if the h had survived in the Latin name of the letter "h", hā.
NounEdit
hay (plural hays)
- The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related termsEdit
- aitch, the Latin letter for this sound
Further readingEdit
- Hay (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
AnagramsEdit
LushootseedEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
hay
- to know
MalagasyEdit
Etymology 1Edit
InterjectionEdit
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ParticipleEdit
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NounEdit
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Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
hay (plural hayes)
- Alternative form of haye (“net”)
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InterjectionEdit
hay
- Alternative form of hey (“hey”)
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
hay (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hey (“hay”)
Etymology 4Edit
PronounEdit
hay
- Alternative form of he (“they”)
Etymology 5Edit
NounEdit
hay
- Alternative form of heye (“hedge”)
Etymology 6Edit
VerbEdit
hay
- Alternative form of haven (“to have”)
Middle FrenchEdit
VerbEdit
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SomaliEdit
VerbEdit
hay
- to hold
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Spanish ha ý (“it has there”) (compare Catalan hi ha and French il y a), from ha, third-person singular present of aver (“to have”), + ý, from Latin ibī (“there”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
hay
- (impersonal) Present indicative form of haber, there is, there are
- Hay dos tiendas que venden películas.
- There are two stores that sell films.
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TagalogEdit
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InterjectionEdit
hay
- Alternative form of ay
- an expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like: sigh
- Hay... Antok na ako!
- Sigh... I'm sleepy already!
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VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Cognate with Arem hɪː ("to understand").
VerbEdit
- (archaic or literary) to know; to get to know; to learn
- 2018 January 22, Viễn Sự, Sơn Lâm, “Trẻ con lai ở miền Tây: Con không cha như nhà không nóc [The mixed children in Southwestern Vietnam: a fatherless child is like a roofless house]”, in Tuổi Trẻ Online[1]:
- Hồi mẹ nó ẵm về nước, bà nội nó nói mua cho cái vé khứ hồi, tới hồi ra sân bay về lại Hàn Quốc thì mới hay cái vé đi có một chiều.
- When his mother carried him in her arms back to Vietnam, his paternal grandmother said they had bought a return ticket for her, but she realised it was only a one-way ticket when she was at the airport, trying to return to Korea.
- Hồi mẹ nó ẵm về nước, bà nội nó nói mua cho cái vé khứ hồi, tới hồi ra sân bay về lại Hàn Quốc thì mới hay cái vé đi có một chiều.
- (‘hay’ + verb) to have a habit of (doing something)
- Ai hay vẽ rồi sẽ vẽ hay.
- Who draws habitually will draw well.
- Con hay nói nhiều lắm.
- You, child, have a habit of talking too much / You, child, are talkative.
Usage notesEdit
- The sense of “to know” is now mostly used in fixed expressions, such as đến đâu hay đến đó and cho hay (“to inform”), in the non-literary language.
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Etymology 2Edit
AdjectiveEdit
- good, as in useful, inventive, interesting or entertaining; compare tốt (good as in high-quality, skillful or ethical)
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ConjunctionEdit
hay (là) (咍)
- or
- Chọn cái này, hay chọn cái kia
- Choose this one, or choose that one
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WalloonEdit
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YolaEdit
PronounEdit
hay
- Alternative form of hea (“he”)
- 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 6:
- Hay was.
- He was.
ReferencesEdit
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 130