hordeum.
barley (the plant or the grain from it); barley-corn;
Meaning & usage
barley
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Italic *horzdeom, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰr̥sdeyom (“bristly”) after the long prickly awns of the ear of grain. Cognate to Old High German gersta (“barley”), German Gerste (“barley”), English gorse. Possibly cognate to Ancient Greek κριθή (krithḗ) (see there for more). Related to Latin horreo (“to bristle”), hirsutus (“hairy”), and ericius (“urchin”).
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