clayey in English

IPA: /ˈkleɪ(j)i/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkleɪi/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-clayey.wav

[Southern-England] Forms: clayier [comparative], clayiest [superlative] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Rhymes: -eɪi Etymology: From Middle English cleii, cleyye (“clayish; messy; unclean”) [and other forms], either: * from Middle English clei, cley (“clay; clayey soil; clay-containing material used as mortar or plaster”) [and other forms] + -i (suffix forming adjectives); clei, cley is derived from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to smear; to stick; glue; putty”); or * from Old English clǣig (“clayey”), from clǣġ (“clay”) (see above) + -iġ (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is equivalent to clay + -ey (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), with the -e- included to avoid the occurrence of -yy. Sense 4 (“of the human body, as contrasted with the soul”) may allude to the biblical account of God creating man from earth; see Genesis 2:7 (King James Version; spelling modernized): “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.” Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*gleh₁y-}}, {{inh|en|enm|cleii}} Middle English cleii, {{m|enm|cleyye|t=clayish; messy; unclean}} cleyye (“clayish; messy; unclean”), {{nb...|cleyi, clayie, cleyy, cleȝy,|otherforms=1}} [and other forms], {{inh|en|enm|clei}} Middle English clei, {{m|enm|cley|t=clay; clayey soil; clay-containing material used as mortar or plaster}} cley (“clay; clayey soil; clay-containing material used as mortar or plaster”), {{nb...|clai, claie, claigh, clay, claye, cleigh|otherforms=1}} [and other forms], {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{m|enm|-i|pos=suffix forming adjectives}} -i (suffix forming adjectives), {{m|enm||clei}} clei, {{m|enm||cley}} cley, {{inh|en|ang|clǣġ|t=clay}} Old English clǣġ (“clay”), {{inh|en|ine-pro|*gleh₁y-}} Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, {{m|ine-pro|*gley-|t=to smear; to stick; glue; putty}} *gley- (“to smear; to stick; glue; putty”), {{inh|en|ang|clǣig|t=clayey}} Old English clǣig (“clayey”), {{m|ang|clǣġ|t=clay}} clǣġ (“clay”), {{m|ang|-iġ|pos=suffix forming adjectives}} -iġ (suffix forming adjectives), {{suffix|en|clay|ey|id2=adjectival|pos2=suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’}} clay + -ey (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), {{smallcaps|Lord}} Lord, {{smallcaps|Lord}} Lord Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} clayey (comparative clayier, superlative clayiest)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, “Alps”, in The Earth: An Intimate History, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, pages 99 and 101",
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          "word": "cretoso"
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        "3": "clei"
      },
      "expansion": "clei",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "",
        "3": "cley"
      },
      "expansion": "cley",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "clǣġ",
        "t": "clay"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English clǣġ (“clay”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gleh₁y-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "*gley-",
        "t": "to smear; to stick; glue; putty"
      },
      "expansion": "*gley- (“to smear; to stick; glue; putty”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "clǣig",
        "t": "clayey"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English clǣig (“clayey”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "clǣġ",
        "t": "clay"
      },
      "expansion": "clǣġ (“clay”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "-iġ",
        "pos": "suffix forming adjectives"
      },
      "expansion": "-iġ (suffix forming adjectives)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "clay",
        "3": "ey",
        "id2": "adjectival",
        "pos2": "suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’"
      },
      "expansion": "clay + -ey (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’)",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Lord"
      },
      "expansion": "Lord",
      "name": "smallcaps"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Lord"
      },
      "expansion": "Lord",
      "name": "smallcaps"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English cleii, cleyye (“clayish; messy; unclean”) [and other forms], either:\n* from Middle English clei, cley (“clay; clayey soil; clay-containing material used as mortar or plaster”) [and other forms] + -i (suffix forming adjectives); clei, cley is derived from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-, *gley- (“to smear; to stick; glue; putty”); or\n* from Old English clǣig (“clayey”), from clǣġ (“clay”) (see above) + -iġ (suffix forming adjectives).\nThe English word is equivalent to clay + -ey (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), with the -e- included to avoid the occurrence of -yy.\nSense 4 (“of the human body, as contrasted with the soul”) may allude to the biblical account of God creating man from earth; see Genesis 2:7 (King James Version; spelling modernized): “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.”",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clayier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clayiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "clayey (comparative clayier, superlative clayiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "clay‧ey"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "clayed"
    },
    {
      "word": "clayishness"
    },
    {
      "word": "unclayed"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nonclayey"
        },
        {
          "word": "unclayed"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1812, Antonio de Alcedo, “DEMERARA”, in G[eorge] A[lexander] Thompson, transl., The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. […], volume II, London: […] [Harding and Wright] for James Carpenter, […], →OCLC, page 13, column 2",
          "text": "The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea; thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar[-]canes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Juan Rulfo, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Pedro Páramo, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, page 90",
          "text": "She had walked over rotted, decaying, splintered planks covered with clayey soil: […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, “Alps”, in The Earth: An Intimate History, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, pages 99 and 101",
          "text": "Limestone, of course, is calcium carbonate, and thus chemically utterly different in composition from the clayey rocks below and the hard, pebbly ones above.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Composed of clay or containing (much) clay; clayish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Composed",
          "compose"
        ],
        [
          "clay",
          "clay"
        ],
        [
          "contain",
          "contain"
        ],
        [
          "clayish",
          "clayish"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "argillaceous"
        },
        {
          "word": "argillous"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Covered or dirtied with clay."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Covered",
          "cover#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "dirtied",
          "dirty#Verb"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nonclayey"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling clay; claylike, clayish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Resembling",
          "resemble"
        ],
        [
          "claylike",
          "claylike"
        ],
        [
          "clayish",
          "clayish"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bolar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Of the human body, as contrasted with the soul; bodily, human, mortal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "human",
          "human#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "contrasted",
          "contrast#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "soul",
          "soul#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "bodily",
          "bodily"
        ],
        [
          "mortal",
          "mortal#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Of the human body, as contrasted with the soul; bodily, human, mortal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkleɪ(j)i/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkleɪi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪi"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "xcl",
      "lang": "Old Armenian",
      "roman": "kawełēn",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "կաւեղէն"
    },
    {
      "code": "rup",
      "lang": "Aromanian",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "lutos"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "savinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "saviperäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "savipitoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "argileux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "glaiseux"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "arxiloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "barrento"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "tixovani",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "თიხოვანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "lehmig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "tonig"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "savekas"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "argilloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "cretoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "argillāceus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "gliniasty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "argiloso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "argilos"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "glínistyj",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "гли́нистый"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "гли̏наст"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "глино̀вит"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "glȉnast"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "glinòvit"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "composed of clay or containing (much) clay",
      "word": "arcilloso"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "King James Version"
  ],
  "word": "clayey"
}

"clayey" meaning in English

Adjective

Inflected forms