Adjective: bay
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | bayer |
| Superlative | bayest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bay |
| Superlative | most bay |
Sample Sentences
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Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's. [2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
Adjectives inflected like bay
wholsom,
seldom,
scared,
solemn,
silent,
beloved,
uptight,
perfect,
useless,
up-tight,
selfish,
distinct,
discreet,
Dutch,
reckless,
bumfuck,
worthless,
slender,
faithfull,
shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English bay, bai, from Old French bai, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”). See: Latin Adjectives '
badius'.