Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA room; chamber. · A cottage. · A cliff or hillside.
From Middle English cleve, from Old English cleofa (“that which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, cave, den, lair, cell, chamber, cellar, apartment”), from Proto-Germanic *klebô (“chamber, cell”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, cleave, split, divide”). Cognate with Old Norse klefi (“a closet, sleeping closet, bedroom”) (whence Icelandic klefi (“cell, compartment”)). Related to cleave.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentioncleveenm
- Inherited-form mentioncleofaang · that which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, cave, den, lair, cell, chamber, cellar, apartment
- Inherited-form mention*klebôgem-pro · chamber, cell
- Derivation mention*glewbʰ-ine-pro · to cut, cleave, split, divide
- Cognate mentionklefinon · a closet, sleeping closet, bedroom
- Cognate mentionklefiis · cell, compartment
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