bar, 來自PIE *bhars, 刺，硬毛，同bristle, 剛毛，硬毛。-ley, 同like, 像。因麥穗如硬毛而命名。
英文詞源
barley
barley: [OE] The Old English word for ‘barley’ was bære or bere. It came from an Indo- European base *bhar- which also gave Latin farīna ‘flour’ (from which English gets farinaceous [17]) and Old Norse farr ‘barley’. Barley (Old English bærlic) was in fact originally an adjective formed from this (like princely based on prince), and it was not until the early twelfth century that it came to be used as a noun. A barn [OE] was originally a building for storing barley. The Old English word ber(e)n was a compound formed from bere and ern or ærn ‘house’ (which may be related to English rest). => barn, farinaceous, farrago
barley (n.)
Old English bærlic, originally an adjective, "of barley," from bere "barley" (from Proto-Germanic *bariz, *baraz) + -lic "body, like." First element is related to Old Norse barr "barley," and cognate with Latin far (genitive farris) "coarse grain, meal;" probably from PIE *bhars- "bristle, point, projection" (see bristle (n.)).
雙語例句
1. The aphid is now laying waste to the wheat and barley fields.
蚜蟲正在毀掉一片片的小麥和大麥田地。
來自柯林斯例句
2. By cereals we mean wheat, oats, rye, barley, and all that.
談到穀物,我們指的是小麥 、 燕麥 、 黑麥 、 大麥之類的東西.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. They looked out across the fields of waving barley.
他們朝田裏望去,隻見大麥隨風搖擺.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. The best - known grains are wheat, barley, oats, rye and maize.
最為人們所熟知的糧食是小麥 、 大麥 、 燕麥 、 黑麥和玉米.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The substance that's causing the problem comes from the barley.