Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics. · An earth material with ductile qualities. · A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate. · The material of the human body.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo add clay to, to spread clay onto. · To purify using clay.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *gloyHós Proto-Germanic *klajjaz Proto-West Germanic *klaij Old English clǣġ Middle English cley English clay From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- (“to glue, paste, stick together”). Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentioncley,clayenm
- Inherited-form mentionclǣġang
- Inherited-form mention*klaijgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*klajjazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*gleyH-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionkleinl
- Cognate mentionKleinds
- Cognate mentionKleide
- Cognate mentionklægda
- Cognate mentionγλίαgrc
- Cognate mentionglūtenla
- Cognate mentionglueen
- Cognate mentionглинаru
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