hayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: hā, IPA^(key): /heɪ/
• Homophone: hey
• 韻: -eɪ

語源 1

From Middle English hey, from 古期英語 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.

名詞

hay (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 hays)

1. (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 1064186951:

     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.

2. (countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
3. (slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
   • 1947, William Burroughs, letter, 19 Feb 1947:

     I would like some of that hay. Enclose $20.

4. A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.

派生語

Further reading

• hay on Wikipedia.

動詞

hay (三人称単数 現在形 hays, 現在分詞 haying, 過去形および過去分詞形 hayed)

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

参考

• bale
• straw

語源 2

From Middle English haye, heye, a conflation of 古期英語 heġe (“hedge, fence”) and 古期英語 ġehæġ (“an enclosed piece of land”).

名詞

hay (複数形 hays)

1. (obsolete) A hedge.
2. (obsolete) A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.
3. (obsolete) An enclosure, haw.
4. (obsolete) A circular country dance.
   • 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, OCLC 837836359, (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 606515358, [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.

語源 3

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.

名詞

hay (複数形 hays)

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

関連する語

• aitch, the Latin letter for this sound

Further reading

• Hay (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• AYH, YHA, Yah, yah