hay

See also: Hay, hãy, and haþ

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EnglishEdit

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Etymology 1Edit

Middle English hey, from Old English hīġ, hīeġ, from Proto-Germanic *hawją (compare West Frisian hea, Dutch hooi, German Heu), from *hawwaną ‎(“to hew, cut down”). More at hew.

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: hā, IPA^(key): /heɪ/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: hey
• Rhymes: -eɪ

NounEdit

hay ‎(countable and uncountable, plural hays)

1. (uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
   • Camden

     Make hay while the sun shines.

   • C. L. Flint

     Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.

2. (countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
3. (slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
   • 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:

     I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20.

4. A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Rowe to this entry?)

5. (obsolete) A hedge.
6. (obsolete) A circular country dance.

   to dance the hay

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from hay (noun)

haybarn hay bed hay fever hayloft, hay loft

haystack hayward hit the hay make hay while the sun shines

TranslationsEdit

grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder

• Arabic: تِبْن m ‎(tibn), جَفِيف m ‎(jafīf), حَشِيش m ‎(ḥašīš), دَرِيس m ‎(darīs)
• Asturian: ḥenu m
• Bashkir: бесән ‎(besän)
• Basque: belar, belar ondu
• Belarusian: се́на n ‎(sjéna)
• Breton: foenn (br) m
• Bulgarian: се́но n ‎(séno)
• Catalan: fenc m
• Ch'orti': ak takin
• Cherokee: ᎧᏁᏍᎦ ‎(kanesga)
• Cheyenne: moˀëˀėsṣe
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乾草 (zh), 干草 (zh) ‎(gāncǎo)

• Cora: ʌsá
• Cornish: gora m
• Crimean Tatar: toban
• Czech: seno (cs) n
• Dalmatian: fin m
• Danish: hø (da) n
• Dutch: hooi (nl) n
• Esperanto: fojno (eo)
• Estonian: hein
• Faroese: hoyggj n
• Finnish: heinä (fi)
• French: foin (fr) m
• Friulian: fen m
• Galician: feo (gl) m
• Georgian: თივა ‎(tiva)
• German: Heu (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹 ‎(hawi)
• Greek: άχυρο (el) n ‎(áchyro), σανός (el) m ‎(sanós)
• Hindi: सूखी घास f ‎(sūkhī ghās)
• Hungarian: széna (hu)
• Icelandic: hey n
• Indonesian: rumput (id) kering (id)
• Interlingua: feno
• Istriot: fen m
• Italian: fieno (it) m
• Japanese: 干草 ‎(ほしくさ, hoshikusa)
• Norman: fain m
• Khmer: ចំបើង (km) ‎(cɑmbaəŋ), ស្មៅស្ងួត ‎(smav sŋuǝt)
• Klallam: sx̣cáʔəy
• Klamath-Modoc: kson
• Korean: 건초 (ko) ‎(geoncho) (乾草 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: pûş (ku)

  Sorani: پووش (ku)

• Latgalian: sīns m
• Latin: faenum n
• Latvian: siens (lv), gulta
• Lithuanian: šienas m
• Luxembourgish: Hee n

• Macedonian: сено n ‎(seno)
• Malagasy: bozaka maina (mg)
• Malay: rumput kering
• Maori: hei
• Middle Dutch: hoy, hooy
• Middle English: hey
• Middle High German: höu, hou, houwe, höuwe
• Middle Low German: höü
• Navajo: tłʼoh
• Norwegian: høy (no) n
• Occitan: fen (oc) m
• Ojibwe: maškosiw
• Old English: hīeg
• Old Frisian: hā
• Old High German: hewi, houwi
• Old Norse: hey n
• Old Portuguese: fẽo
• Old Saxon: hōi
• Polish: siano (pl) n
• Portuguese: feno (pt) m, relva (pt) f, forragem (pt) f
• Romanian: fân (ro) n
• Romansch: fain m
• Russian: се́но (ru) n ‎(séno)
• Sardinian: fenu m
• Scottish Gaelic: feur m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Ekavian) се̑но n, (Ijekavian) сије̑но n

  Roman: (Ekavian) sȇno (sh) n, (Ijekavian) sijȇno (sh) n

• Sicilian: frenu (scn) m
• Slovak: seno (sk) n
• Slovene: seno (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: seno n

• Spanish: heno (es) m
• Swahili: majani (sw) makavu, ukoko mkwavu
• Swedish: hö (sv) n
• Tagalog: ginikan, dayami
• Telugu: ఎండు గడ్డి ‎(eṃḍu gaḍḍi)
• Thracian: sékas
• Tonkawa: ˀɛkʷʌnɛsχʌw-yʌχʌn
• Turkish: saman (tr), kuru ot
• Ukrainian: сі́но n ‎(síno)
• Venetian: fjen m, fen (vec) m
• Vietnamese: cỏ khô
• Volapük: sigayeb (vo)
• Walloon: four (wa)
• Welsh: gwair (cy) m
• West Frisian: hea c
• Yiddish: היי n ‎(hei)
• Zazaki: sımer n, vaso wusk n

External linksEdit

• Hay on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia

VerbEdit

hay ‎(third-person singular simple present hays, present participle haying, simple past and past participle hayed)

1. To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
2. To lay snares for rabbits.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Huloet to this entry?)

TranslationsEdit

to cut green plants for fodder

• Basque: belarra ondu
• Bulgarian: кося и суша трева ‎(kosja i suša treva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 制干草 ‎(zhì gāncǎo), ^{(please verify)} 供给干草 ‎(gōngjǐ gāncǎo) (transitive), ^{(please verify)} 晒干草 ‎(shài gāncǎo) (intransitive)

• Danish: slå hø
• Dutch: hooien (nl)
• Estonian: heina tegema
• Finnish: tehdä (fi) heinää (fi)
• Interlingua: preparar feno

• Italian: fieno (it)
• Lithuanian: šienauti
• Polish: kosić (pl) siano (pl)
• Portuguese: fenar
• Romanian: a întoarce fînul, a cosi fînul
• Russian: собира́ть се́но ‎(sobirátʹ séno)
• Slovene: seno sušiti
• Spanish: cortar heno
• Vietnamese: cắt cỏ cho thú vật (literally: to cut grass for animals)
• Volapük: sigayebön
• Zazaki: patil f, palax

Related termsEdit

• bale
• straw

ReferencesEdit

Webster's Online Dictionary article on hay

Etymology 2Edit

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.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hay ‎(plural hays)

1. The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.

Related termsEdit

• aitch, the Latin letter for this sound

AnagramsEdit

• AYH
• yah
• YHA

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Middle FrenchEdit

VerbEdit

hay

1. first-person singular present indicative of hayr

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Spanish ha i ‎(“it has there”) (compare Catalan hi ha and French il y a), from ha, third-person singular present of haber ‎(“to have”), + i, from Latin ibī ‎(“there”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ai̯/
• Homophone: ay

VerbEdit

hay

1. (Impersonal form) 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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VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hɐj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hɐj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [hɐj˧˥]

AdjectiveEdit

hay

1. exciting, interesting

   Phim này hay‎

   This film is interesting

VerbEdit

hay [+ verb]

1. to have a habit of (doing something)

   Con hay nói nhiều lắm‎

   You, child, have a habit of talking too much / You, child, are talkative

ConjunctionEdit

hay (là)

1. or

   Chọn cái này, hay chọn cái kia‎

   Choose this one, or choose that one

Derived termsEdit

• hay là
• ơ hay
• ô hay

See alsoEdit

• hoặc

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WalloonEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /haj/

InterjectionEdit

hay

1. go, let us go