clayey

Significat (Anglès)

1. Composed of clay or containing (much) clay; clayish.
2. Covered or dirtied with clay.
3. Resembling clay; claylike, clayish.
4. (figuratively) Of the human body, as contrasted with the soul; bodily, human, mortal.

Conceptes

argilenc

argilós

argil·lós

Oposat a

nonclayey, unclayed

Sinònims

argillaceous

muddy

heavy

clayish

loamy

cloggy

mild clay

earthen

miry

turbid

Traduccions

argilloso

arcilloso

tonhaltig

argileux

tonartig

kleiachtig

gredoso

argiloso

argillaceus

argillosus

leemachtig

lemig

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkleɪ(j)i/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: cleii

Heretat de anglès mitjà: clei

Heretat de anglès antic: clǣġ

Heretat de anglès antic: clǣig

In summary

From Middle English cleyy, 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.”