klei

See also: Klei and Kléi

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch klei, from Middle Dutch cleie, from Old Dutch *klei, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, stick together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kləi̯/

Noun

klei (uncountable)

1. clay

Derived terms

• kleilat

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch cleie, from Old Dutch *klei, from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, stick together”). Compare German Klei, English clay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɛi̯/

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• Hyphenation: klei
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯
• Homophone: Klei

Noun

klei f (uncountable)

1. clay

Derived terms

• boetseerklei
• kleien
• kleileem
• kleitablet
• papierklei
• pijpklei
• rivierklei
• veenklei
• zeeklei

Descendants

• Afrikaans: klei
• Berbice Creole Dutch: klei
• → Caribbean Javanese: klèi
• → Papiamentu: klei

See also

• boetseren

Anagrams

• kiel

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛ.i/

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• Rhymes: -ɛi
• Syllabification: kle‧i

Verb

klei

1. third-person singular present of kleić

Rade

Etymology 1

From Proto-Chamic *talɛy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talih, from Proto-Austronesian *CaliS.

Noun

klei (classifier aruăt)

1. string; rope; wire

   Amĭ blei klei pui.

   Mom buys electrical wires.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Chamic *kalɛy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kali, from Proto-Austronesian *kalih.

Verb

klei

1. (transitive) to dig

Etymology 3

Noun

klei

1. human sound
2. language

   klei Êđê

   Rade

   klei Yuăn

   Vietnamese

   klei Prăng

   French

Etymology 4

Noun

klei

1. incident; occurrence

   klei bruă anei

   this incident

   Klei Aê Diê Blŭ

   the Bible

   (literally, “the Stories God Told”)

   Klei Mphŭn Dơ̆ng

   Genesis

   (literally, “the Beginning”)

   Klei Kbiă

   Exodus

   (literally, “the Exit”)

   Klei Yap

   Numbers

   (literally, “the Accounting”)

   Klei Mtô Mñă Klei Bhiăn

   Deuteronomy

   (literally, “the Restatement of the Law”)

Usage notes

Nominalizes other parts of speech like Vietnamese sự or Japanese 事 (koto).

References

• James A. Tharp, Y-Bhăm Ƀuôn-yǎ (1980) A Rhade-English Dictionary with English-Rhade Finderlist (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-58)‎^[1], Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, →ISBN, archived from the original on 1 November 2021, page 64