hay
/heɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.91 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Make hay while sunne shines."
- "Hay may be dried too much as well as too little."
- "I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20."
- "Jeff Spicoli, roll me another hay"
- "My men like Satyres grazing on the lawnes, Shall with their Goate feete daunce an antick hay,"
- "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
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.