Noun: clay
Sample Sentences
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Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […] [1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 377, column 2:]
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The French Open is played on clay.
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From clay we are made.
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Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 10:8-9:]
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But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 64:8:]
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We went shooting clays at the weekend.
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Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.
Nouns inflected like clay
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
4. Proto-Indo-European *gloyHós
5. Proto-Germanic *klajjaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *klaij
7. Old English clǣġ
8. Middle English cley
9. English clay
10. From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- (“to glue, paste, stick together”). Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog. See: Dutch Nouns '
klei', German Nouns '
Klei', Danish Nouns '
klæg', Ancient Greek Nouns '
γλία', Latin Nouns '
glūten', English Nouns '
glue', Russian Nouns '
глина'.
Verbs referencing "clay"
French Nouns
glaise, Dutch Nouns
klei, German Nouns
Kleister.