Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

hay

/heɪ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms hays haying hayed

  1. noun (uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.
  2. noun (countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.
  3. noun (slang) Cannabis; marijuana.
  4. noun A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.
  5. verb To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.
  6. verb To lay snares for rabbits.
  7. noun (obsolete) A hedge.
  8. noun (obsolete) A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.
  9. noun (obsolete) An enclosure, haw.
  10. noun (obsolete) A circular country dance.
  11. noun The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.
  12. proper noun A surname.
  13. proper noun A town and local government area (Hay Shire) in the Riverina area of New South Wales, Australia, named after John Hay.
  14. proper noun A township in Gladwin County, Michigan, United States.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Whitman County, Washington, United States.
  16. proper noun A community (civil parish) for Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, served by Hay-on-Wye Town Council.
  17. proper noun A hamlet in St Breock parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9770).

Etymology

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.

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

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.

From Middle English Hay.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hedge. [Obs.]
  2. noun A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.
  3. verb To lay snares for rabbits. Huloet.
  4. noun Grass cut and cured for fodder.

Etymology [AS. hege: cf. F. haie, of German origin. See Haw a hedge, Hedge.]

Etymology [OE. hei, AS. h; akin to D. kooi, OHG. hewi, houwi, G. heu, Dan. & Sw. hö, Icel. hey, ha, Goth. hawi grass, fr. the root of E. hew. See Hew to cut.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hay”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “hay” (best matches first).