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'''Barley''' (hordeum vulgare) is a one the oldest documented cultivated [[cereal]]. It could have been cultivated for 9.000 years or more.

Barley today is used as humane and animal food but also to prepare beer.


== Vocabulary ==


*English: barely.

** Mnemotechnics ''barely'' sounds is close to ''beer''. The two words are actually related.
** Not to be confused with ''[[barely]]''
* German (die ''Gerste'') is similar to Dutch (''gerst'')

* French (''orge''), Catalan (''ordi'' (masculine)) and Italian are related (''orzo''). Not surprising since in Latin it is ''hordeum'' (classic Latin) and ''ordeum'' (Ecclesiatic Latin)
* Spanish (''cebada''), Portuguese (''cevada''), Galician (''cebada'') are all related to Latin word meaning food

* Chinese (大[[麦]], dàmài) and Japanese (大麦, おおむぎ) have same origin. Mnemotechnics. 麦 is used to form words for several cereal such as [[wheat]] (小麦, xiǎomài) and [[rye]] (黑麦, hēi mài). If you know French and English word ''ogre'' and the translation of barley in French, then it easier to remember why in Chinese it is the ''big'' cereal.


== See also: ==
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley
* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barley

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