neigh

«neigh» in Mova's school dictionary: verb: When a horse neighs, it makes its long, high, loud… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (neigh, neighs, neighed, neighing); noun (a neigh, neighs)

meaning for a pupil

1) verb: When a horse neighs, it makes its long, high, loud call. tree →

2) noun: The sound a horse makes. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories, a horse neighing tells the reader it is excited, frightened or calling to other horses. In early reading, animal sounds: cows moo, sheep baa, horses neigh. Phrases: «neigh loudly», «a loud neigh», «gave a neigh».

examples

• The horse neighed when it saw the farmer with the hay. tree →
• We heard a loud neigh from the stable. tree →
• The pony neighed and tossed its head. tree →
• Cows moo and horses neigh. tree →
• The frightened horse gave a high neigh and galloped away. tree →
• Can you neigh like a horse? tree →
• Proud, black horses, worth looking at, were neighing in the stable. tree →

note

Past «neighed». Pronounced «nay», the same sound as «nay» (old word for no). Spelling has silent «gh» like in «weigh» and «eight». Homophone: nay. Other horse sounds: whinny, snort, nicker.

In the corpora

• They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «neigh» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.