klei

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”).

• IPA^(key): /kləi̯/

klei (uncountable)

1. clay

• kleilat

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.

• IPA^(key): /klɛi̯/

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

klei f (uncountable)

1. clay

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

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

• boetseren

• kiel

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛ.i/

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• Rhymes: -ɛi
• Syllabification: kle‧i

klei

1. third-person singular present of kleić

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

klei (classifier aruăt)

1. string; rope; wire

   Amĭ blei klei pui.

   Mom buys electrical wires.

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

klei

1. (transitive) to dig

klei

1. human sound
2. language

   klei Êđê

   Rade

   klei Yuăn

   Vietnamese

   klei Prăng

   French

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”)

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

• James A. Tharp, Y-Bhăm Ƀuôn-yǎ (1980) A Rhade-English Dictionary with English-Rhade Finderlist (Pacific Linguistics. Series C-58)‎, 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