cly

See also: Cly

Translingual

Symbol

cly

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Eastern Highland Chatino.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Eastern Highland Chatino terms

English

Etymology

Probably related to claw (compare Low German kleien, klaien (“to claw, scratch, grasp, seize”), dialectal German klauen, kläuen, kleuen (“to steal”), German klauen (“to steal, rip off”)).

Alternatively referred by some to Dutch kleed (“a garment”); "to fake a cly" was to take a garment.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophone: Cley

Verb

cly (third-person singular simple present clies, present participle clying, simple past and past participle clied)

1. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To seize; to steal.
   • 1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896, page 34:

     Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's prig in sport.

Related terms

• cloyer
• clye (“to scratch”)

Noun

cly (plural clies)

1. (slang, obsolete) A person's pocket.

Derived terms

• clyfaker
• clyfaking
• frisk someone's cly

Anagrams

• LyC, Lyc, YCL, cyl.

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowed from English cry.

Verb

cly

1. to cry, be sad

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡slɪ]

Noun

cly

1. instrumental plural of clo

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /klɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /kliː/

Verb

cly

1. obsolete form of clo (“(s/he) locks, closes”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cly

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cly	gly	nghly	chly

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.