Where does “clift” come from?

clift (Middle English) comes from Old English ġeclyft, from Proto-West Germanic *klufti, from Proto-Germanic kluftiz, from Proto-Germanic kleubaną, from Proto-Indo-European glewbʰ- — to split.

clift (Middle English): A cleft; a fission, fissure, or split in...

Definitions

  1. A cleft; a fission, fissure, or split in...

Ancestry of “clift”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishġeclyftsplit, cleft
2Proto-West Germanic*klufti—
3Proto-Germanickluftizsplitting
4Proto-Germanickleubanąto split, to cleave
5Proto-Indo-Europeanglewbʰ-to split

Words derived from “clift”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European glewbʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic kleubaną →Every word from Proto-Germanic kluftiz →