hay

• 干し草
• vt.天日で乾かす
• 草を刈って乾燥させること。

古英語のheg、飼料、刈り取られた草、PIE*keuの打つ、切る、刈るが語源で、語源的にはhew、鍬と同じ。

hay

hay: [OE] Etymologically, hay is ‘that which is cut down’. It comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic verb *khauwan, source also of English hew, which was formed from the Indo-European base *kou-, *kow-. From it was derived the noun *khaujam, which has become German hau, Dutch hooi, Swedish and Danish h?, and English hay – ‘grass cut down and dried’.

Other English descendants of Germanic *khauwan ‘cut down’ are haggle [16], which originally meant ‘hack, mutilate’ and was derived from an earlier hag ‘cut’, a borrowing from Old Norse h?ggva ‘cut’; and hoe [14], which comes via Old French houe from Frankish *hauwa ‘cut’.
=> haggle, hew, hoe

hay (n.)

"grass mown," Old English heg (Anglian), hieg, hig (West Saxon) "grass cut or mown for fodder," from Proto-Germanic *haujam (cognates: Old Norse hey, Old Frisian ha, Middle Dutch hoy, German Heu, Gothic hawi "hay"), literally "that which is cut," or "that which can be mowed," from PIE *kau- "to hew, strike" (cognates: Old English heawan "to cut;" see hew). Slang phrase hit the hay (pre-1880) was originally "to sleep in a barn;" hay in the general figurative sense of "bedding" is from 1903; roll in the hay (n.) is from 1945.

1. Hay fever is an affliction which arrives at an early age.

枯草熱は年齢が小さいとかかる病気です。

2.He drove by with a big load of hay .

彼は大きな車の干し草を乗せて走った。

3.Rainy weather brings blessed relief to hay fever victims.

雨の日は枯草熱患者に喜びを与え、苦痛を軽減する。

4.She 's a victim of the dreaded hay fever.

彼女は花粉熱という嫌な病気にかかった。

5.He raises 2000 acres of wheat and hay .

彼は2000エーカーの小麦と牧草を栽培した。