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Vinony

hay

noun

  1. dried grass or other feed
L14893 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. to convert plant material (grass, clover, etc) into hay
L331899 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /heɪ/

name

Etymology: From Middle English Hay.

  1. A surname.
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noun

Etymology: 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.

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

verb

Etymology: 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.

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