barley

noun
/ˈbɑɹli/US/ˈbɑːli/UK

Etymology

* The village in Hertfordshire is from "Beora's ley," from *Beora + -ley (“clearing, lea”). The former is a personal name from Old English bera (“bear”). * The village in Lancashire is from Old English bar (“boar”) or bere (“barley”) + leah (“clearing”). * As an English surname, from the noun barley. As a south German surname, spelling variant of Behrle, Beerli, themselves related to the noun bear.

  1. derived from *bʰers-
  2. derived from *baraz
  3. inherited from bærlīċ
  4. inherited from barly

Definitions

  1. A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make…

    A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.

  2. The seed of Job's tears. (Coix lacryma-jobi)

  3. A village in Hertfordshire, England.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. A village in Lancashire, England.

    2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at barley. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at barley. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at barley

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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