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How to spell hay

Hay is spelled H-A-Y.

hear ithay/heɪ/nounLong vowels

What it means: Dried grass used as animal fodder.

In a sentence: The cows eat hay in the barn.

Same family: hay (noun), hayfield, haying, haymaker, haystack. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The verb “to hay” comes from the noun “hay,” which goes back to Old English “hieg” or “hēg,” meaning cut grass for fodder. Over time, English speakers turned the noun into a verb to describe the action of making grass into hay.

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