hay
English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]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:
- 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.
- 1994, “Bug Powder Dust”, performed by Bomb the Bass:
- Jeff Spicoli, roll me another hay
- 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:
- A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
Derived terms
[edit]- hay-asthma
- haybag
- hay bag
- haybale
- hayband
- haybarn
- hay bed
- haybird
- hay-bote
- haybote
- haybox
- haycap
- haycart
- haycation
- hay-cock
- haycock
- hay devil
- hayer
- hayey
- hay fever
- hay-fever
- hayfever
- hayfield
- Hayford
- hayfork
- hayhead
- hay is for horses
- hay knife
- haylage
- hayland
- hayless
- haylift
- haylike
- hay loft
- hayloft
- haymaker
- haymaking
- Haymarket
- haymonger
- hay moon
- haymow
- haymower
- haynet
- hay net
- hayrack
- hayrake
- hayrick
- hayricker
- hay ride
- hayride
- hay-scented fern
- hayseed
- haysel
- hayshed
- haystack
- haystalk
- hay tea
- haytime
- hay wagon
- hay wain
- haywain
- hayward
- haywire
- hit the hay
- lunar hay fever
- make hay
- make hay while the sun shines
- meadow hay
- Oxhey
- roll in the hay
- romp in the hay
- salt hay
- salt marsh hay
- slough hay
- what the hay
Translations
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Further reading
[edit]Verb
[edit]hay (third-person singular simple present hays, present participle haying, simple past and past participle hayed)
Translations
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See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English haye, heye, a conflation of Old English heġe (“hedge, fence”) and Old English ġehæġ (“an enclosed piece of land”).
Noun
[edit]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, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes,
Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay,
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), 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, [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 3
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]hay (plural hays)
- The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
[edit]- aitch, the Latin letter for this sound
Further reading
[edit]Hay (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Fingallian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi.
Noun
[edit]hay
- dance
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
- Hay,
- Irish-Hay, a Dance.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
Lushootseed
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]hay
- to know
Malagasy
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Interjection
[edit]hay
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]hay
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]hay
Etymology 4
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hay
Etymology 5
[edit]Noun
[edit]hay
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]hay (plural hayes)
- Alternative form of haye (“net”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Interjection
[edit]hay
- Alternative form of hey (“hey”)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]hay (uncountable)
- Alternative form of hey (“hay”)
Etymology 4
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]hay
- Alternative form of he (“they”)
Etymology 5
[edit]Noun
[edit]hay
- Alternative form of heye (“hedge”)
Etymology 6
[edit]Verb
[edit]hay
- Alternative form of haven (“to have”)
Middle French
[edit]Verb
[edit]hay
Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]hay
- (impersonal, Galicia) there is, there are
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, page 533:
- Et moytas uegadas cõteçe que hay algũus que nõ catã senõ porlo que he sua prol
- And many times it happens that there are some than don't care but for their own interest
Descendants
[edit]- Galician: hai
Further reading
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aver”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “hay”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Somali
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[edit]hay
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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 (locative pronoun, compare modern French y and Catalan hi), from Latin ibī (“there”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]hay
Derived terms
[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /haj/ [haɪ̯]
- Rhymes: -aj
- Syllabification: hay
Etymology 1
[edit]Interjection
[edit]hay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜌ᜔)
- 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!
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜌ᜔)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]hay (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜌ᜔) (obsolete)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Vietnamese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Cognate with Arem hɪː ("to understand").
Verb
[edit]- (archaic or literary) to know; to get to know; to learn
- 15th century, Nguyễn Trãi, “歸崑山重九偶作 Quy côn sơn trùng cửu ngẫu tác”, in Quốc âm thi tập (國音詩集):
- 𣈜恪咍兠群役恪
節冷馬女底朱戈- Ngày khác hay đâu còn việc khác,
Tiết lành mựa nỡ để cho qua. - Who knows on a different day if I would be busy or not,
[So] I would rather not miss out on this nice weather [right now].
- Ngày khác hay đâu còn việc khác,
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều)[1]:
- 𬖉𦋦𦰟𦹵𦲿核
𧡊囂囂𱢻時能姉𧗱- Trông ra ngọn cỏ lá cây,
Thấy hiu hiu gió thì hay chị về. - And when you look outside, to where the grass and leaves are,
And if you see them sway in the light breeze, then you know that I, your sister, will come home soon.
- Trông ra ngọn cỏ lá cây,
- 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[2]:
- 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.
- (‘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 notes
[edit]- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]- good, as in useful, inventive, interesting or entertaining; compare tốt (good as in high-quality, skillful or ethical)
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
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[edit]Conjunction
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- Chọn cái này, hay chọn cái kia
- Choose this one, or choose that one
- 1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều)[3]:
- 吏輸妸李半命能牢
- Lại thua ả Lý bán mình hay sao?
- Could I fall short of Lady Li, who sold herself?
Derived terms
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[edit]Walloon
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]hay
Yola
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]hay
- Alternative form of hea (“he”)
- 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, line 6:
- "Hay was mee gude plowere,
- "He was my good plougher,
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 4:
- Fan Buckeen hay pooked lik own thing mad.
- When Buckeen he jumped like a thing mad.
- 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 7:
- Wi spur upa heel hay gaed him a goad,
- With a spur on his heel, he gave him a goad,
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 3:
- Shu bin vrem Vorth, an hay vrem Bargee,
- She being from Forth and he from Bargy;
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 5:
- Yola Vather Deruse hay raree cam thoare,
- Old Father Devereux (he) early came there,
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 6:
- Wi buke an wi candale hay tackled a paare.
- With book and with candle he tackled the pair;
References
[edit]- 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
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