Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting. · A piece made by splitting. · A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
From Middle English clifte, from Old English ġeclyft, from Proto-West Germanic *klufti, from Proto-Germanic *kluftiz, equivalent to cleave + -t (“-th”). Compare Dutch klucht (“coarse comedy”), Swedish klyft (“cave, den”), German Kluft. See cleave. The modern form with /ɛ/ is by association with Etymology 2 (the past form of cleave).
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