kleven
Meaning
- (intransitive) to stick, to be attached glue-like
- (transitive) to glue, to adhere something on/to something else, to stick to/on
- (intransitive) to be sticky
- (intransitive) to tailgate (drive dangerously close)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
kle‧ven
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkleː.və(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch clēven, from Old Dutch clivon, from Proto-West Germanic *klibēn, from Proto-Germanic *klibāną, from Proto-Indo-European *gleybʰ- (“to stick”).
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