• n. 干草
• vt. 把曬干
• vi. 割草曬干

來自古英語heg,草料，割下來的草，來自PIE*keu,擊，砍，割，詞源同hew,hoe.

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.

枯草熱是年紀較小時會患的一種病。

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

他載著一大車干草駛過。

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

雨天會給枯草熱患者帶來欣喜，減輕他們的痛苦。

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

她患上了花粉熱這種討厭的病癥。

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5. He raises 2,000 acres of wheat and hay.

他種植了2,000英畝的小麥和牧草。

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