Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder. · To lay snares for rabbits.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryGrass cut and dried for use as animal fodder. · Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder. · Cannabis; marijuana. · A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
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.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionheyenm
- Inherited-form mentionhīeġang
- Inherited-form mention*hawigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hawjągem-pro
- Cognate mentionheafy
- Cognate mentionHeuwgsw
- Cognate mentionhöobecim
- Cognate mentionhooinl
- Cognate mentionHeude
- Cognate mentionHeelb
- Cognate mentionheimhn
- Cognate mentionהייyi
- Cognate mentionhøda
- Cognate mentionhoyggjfo
- Cognate mentionhoygmq-gut
- Cognate mentionheyis
- Cognate mentionhøynn
- Cognate mentionhösv
- Cognate mention𐌷𐌰𐍅𐌹got
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