wheat: [OE] Wheat is etymologically the ‘white’ grain. The word comes from prehistoric Germanic *khvaitjaz (source also of German weizen, Dutch weit, Swedish hvete, and Danish hvede), which was derived from a variant of the base *khwīt-, source of English white. It alludes to the ‘white’ flour produced by grinding the grain. => white
wheat (n.)
Old English hw?te "wheat," from Proto-Germanic *hwaitjaz (cognates: Old Saxon hweti, Old Norse hveiti, Norwegian kveite, Old Frisian hwete, Middle Dutch, Dutch weit, Old High German weizzi, German Weizen, Gothic hvaiteis "wheat"), literally "that which is white" (in reference to the grain or the meal), from PIE *kwoid-yo-, suffixed variant form of root *kweid-, *kweit- "to shine" (see white; and compare Welsh gwenith "wheat," related to gwenn "white"). The Old World grain was introduced into New Spain in 1528. Wheaties, the cereal brand name, was patented 1925.
例文
1. The aphid is now laying waste to the wheat and barley fields.
アブラムシが小麦や大麦畑を破壊している。
2.It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat .
お金を出して農民を雇ってこの低いジャングルを開墾して麦を植える。
3.I take wheat and yeast tablets daily to purify the blood.
私は毎日ドライイースト錠を服用して血液を浄化します。
4.They had been forced to uproot their vines and plant wheat .
彼らはブドウの藤を根こそぎ取り除き、小麦を栽培することを余儀なくされた。
5.It isn 't always easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.