Noun: hay
Sample Sentences
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Make hay while sunne shines. [1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:]
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Hay may be dried too much as well as too little. [1857, Charles Louis Flint, Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise, […] :]
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I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20. [1947, William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947]
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Jeff Spicoli, roll me another hay [1994, “Bug Powder Dust”, performed by Bomb the Bass:]
Nouns inflected like hay
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English hey, from Old English hīeġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hawi, from Proto-Germanic *hawją, from *hawwaną (“to hew, cut down”).
2. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
hey', Dutch Nouns '
hooi', German Nouns '
Heu', Danish Nouns '
hø', Faroese Nouns '
hoyggj', Icelandic Nouns '
hey', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
høy', Swedish Nouns '
hö', Gothic Nouns '
𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹'.
Verbs referencing "hay"
German Nouns
Heu, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
høy, Finnish Nouns
haiven.