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Kla 'claw,’ but it is not found in the non- languages. The root is klu, pre- glu ( Knäuel); klá, ‘to scratch, shave,’ based on a  klah, is scarcely connected with these cognates.   ,, ‘cell,’ from klûse, klûs, , ‘hermitage, cell,’ also ‘monastery,’  chlûsa. clausa, clusa, clausum, closum, with the meanings ‘locus seu ager sepibus vel muris septus aut clausus,’ also ‘monastery’; hence the word is based on clusa, which is a later participial form, due to clûsus, the  of the compounds of claudere, in place of the earlier clausus (  chiusa). On the other hand, klôse, klôs,, ‘hermitage, monastery,’ with the derivative klôsenœre, ‘hermit’ (  clausarius, ‘monk,’ but clûsinaria, , ‘virgo deo sacra reclusa’), is based on  clausa, *clôsa ( clôsum). The meanings of klôse, klûse, ‘rocky cleft, defile, ravine,’ are connected with  clûsa, ‘angustus montium aditus.’  also Kloster,  clûs,, ‘cell.’   ,, ‘clause,’ in use since the 15th , from clausula.  ,, ‘to cleave (to),’ from klëben,  chlëbên, , ‘to cleave, adhere, hold on’ (for ë from  and Aryan ĭ  , , , &c.); corresponding to  kliƀôn,  cleofian,  to cleave;  *klibôn is wanting;  klifa has only the figurative sense ‘to cling to,’ i.e., ‘to repeat.’ A common   meaning ‘to cleave (to),’ formed from the weakest vowel stage of the  root klī̆b (see ).  ', ',, ‘blot,’ simply; only the    may be traced farther back,  klęcken, ‘to blot, stain, sputter,’ also ‘to strike sonorously’; the corresponding klac (ckes), , signifies ‘rent, slit, crack.’   ,, ‘clover,’ from the  klê ( k ' êwes), ,  chlê, chlêo ( chlêwes). and ; based on klaiw- (see, ). The remaining, have an extended form, in some cases only partially corresponding,  clœ̂fre, clâfre, ,  clover,  klaver,  klever and klȧver, ‘clover.’ Perhaps these are based on some obscure compound. Except in the West languages, too, there are no terms cognate with  ; in,  smári (smœrur),  and    smœre are used;  klöver is borrowed.   ,, ‘clay,’ only, from  klei, ‘slime, loam, moist earth,’ allied to  klei, , ‘marsh soil, clay, loam';   clay, from  clœ̂g. An assumed *kladdja,, may be connected with the root klai, by gradation klî, meaning ‘to cleave (to),’ which has a wider ramification in ;  clâm (from klaim), ‘loam, clay,’   cloam, ‘pottery,’  chleimen,  kleima, klîna, ‘to besmear’;   and. It corresponds in the non- languages to γλοι, by gradation γλι;  γλοιός, ‘oil lees, clammy stuff,’ as well as γλίνη and γλιά, ‘glue';  glus, gluten, with û for older oi;  glina, ‘clay,’ glěnŭ, ‘slime’ ( glĭwe, ‘slime’?). Further klënen, ‘to cleave (to), spread over,’ is connected with the  and  noun with the suffix na.  ',, ‘to stick, glue,’ from and  kleiben, ‘to fix firmly, fasten,’  ‘to cause to adhere or hold on'; a causative of the  klîben, obsolete in  and rarely found even in   chlîban,  biklîƀan, ‘to cleave, adhere.’  klífa, ‘to climb,’ proves the connection of   (which see) with the root klī̆b, klī̆f, ‘to cleave (to),’ from pre- glī̆p ( f in Swiss χlefe, ‘box on the ear.’  ', , ‘dress,’ from the   kleit ( kleides), ; wanting in  till the middle of the 12th ; hence the word is supposed to be borrowed from  kleed. Unknown  to  also, as well as to  and several  records ( clâþ, , ‘cloth, dress,’  cloth;  klœ́þi, , ‘stuff, cloth, dress’). The history of the word, which is more widely diffused in the modern  languages, is obscure on account of the want of early references and the divergence of the earliest recorded forms, AS clûþ, , and  klœ́ði,  (the latter too has an abnormal â instead of ei for the  oi). If the dental of clâþ be regarded as derivative ( *klai-þa), we may infer from the  and  meaning ‘stuff, cloth’ ( cildclâþ,  ‘child's clothes,’ with the special sense ‘swaddling cloth’), a root klai signifying perhaps ‘to weave.’   ,, ‘bran,’ from the  klîe, usually  klîen, with the earlier variant klîwen,  chlîa, chlîwa,<section end="Kleie" />