hay

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
2. (countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) Cannabis; marijuana.
4. (countable, uncountable) A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.

Verb

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

Sinonieme

straw

grass

fodder

dry grass

alfalfa

greens

wild parsley

forage

sleep-tight

sleeping

😴

shut-eye

sleep tight

bud

broccoli

🥦

bar

boom

💥

fiber

boo

bale

feed

eatables

blonde

limbo

fir

flower

🌸

dry

ditch

funk

gage

gangster

block

baby

👶

ding

grata

dew

bed

🛏️

greeter

greta

has

hemp

herb

🌿

homegrown

hooch

kali

kilter

kind

Ghana

🇬🇭

loaf

lobo

charge

Vertalings

foin

fieno

Heu

heno

hooi

feno

fenc

saman

fenum

σανός

ξηρόχορτο

تِبْن

faenum

forragem

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/heɪ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: hey

Geërf van Old English: hīeġ

Verwante met Fries: hea

Verwante met Nederlands: hooi

Verwante met Duits: Heu

Verwante met Noors: høy

In summary

From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi, from Proto-Germanic *hawją, from *hawwaną (“to hew, cut down”).
Cognate with West Frisian hea (“hay”), Alemannic German Heuw (“hay”), Cimbrian höobe (“hay”), Dutch hooi (“hay”), German Heu (“hay”), Luxembourgish Hee (“hay”), Mòcheno hei (“hay”), Yiddish היי (hey, “hay”), Danish hø (“hay”), Faroese hoyggj (“hay”), Gutnish hoy (“hay”), Icelandic hey (“hay”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk høy (“hay”), Swedish hö (“hay”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹 (hawi, “grass, hay”). More at hew.