barley
意味
- 大麦(ビール・ウイスキー醸造用の麦芽(malt)をとる)
例文
Can you tell barley from wheat at first sight?
大麦と小麦を一目見て見分けられますか。
Having run the race, Jane had two glasses of barley tea.
競争の後に、ジェーンは麦茶を２杯のみました。
Can you distinguish barley from wheat?
大麦と小麦って見分けれる？
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English barly, barli, from Old English bærlīċ (“barley-like”, adjective) (later referring to barley itself and grain crops of similar appearance), from bere (“barley”) (compare Scots bere (“six-rowed barley”)), from Proto-Germanic *baraz (compare Old Norse barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”). Equivalent to bere + -ly. See English brew.