claie

Inherited from Old French cloie, from Old Occitan cleda, from Medieval Latin clida, from Gaulish *cleta, from Proto-Celtic *klētā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). Cognate with Galician cheda, Irish cliath and Welsh clwyd.

• IPA^(key): /klɛ/

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claie f (plural claies)

1. wicker rack; trellis
2. hurdle (temporary fence, hedge)

• “claie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “claie”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page cliath

From Slavic *kladňa.

claie f (plural clăi)

1. haystack

   Synonym: căpiță

2. heap, pile
3. a bunch, mass, multitude, throng, crowd

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