Noun: klei
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like klei
groepsimmuniteit,
wintergroen,
nixtamalisatie,
homocultuur,
onbesprokenheid,
sesaté,
sepsis,
sterfelijkheid,
seleen,
stoomkracht,
beeldhouwkunst,
clitoridectomie,
kontlikkerij,
concurrentie,
sardis,
satijn,
militaria,
santen,
staatsterreur,
classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: German Nouns '
Klei', English Nouns '
clay'.
Verbs referencing "klei"
English Nouns
clay, French Nouns
glaise, Old English Nouns
clæg.
Translations