Where does “ġeclyft” come from?

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

ġeclyft (Old English): split, cleft

Definitions

  1. split, cleft

Ancestry of “ġeclyft”, step by step

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

Words derived from “ġeclyft”

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