Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A layer of material. · A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn. · Clipping of plywood. · In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
From Middle English pleit, plit, plite (“a fold, pleat, wrinkle; braid, strand in a braided cord, ply”), from Anglo-Norman pli, plei, pleit, and Middle French pli, ploy, ply (“a fold, pleat; joint in armour; situation, state”) (modern French pli (“a fold, pleat”)), from plier, ployer (“to bend, fold”), from Latin plicāre (“to bend, fold, roll up”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold, plait, weave”).
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