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单词 Indo-European root: klei-
释义
‌‌klei-
To lean. Oldest form *k̑lei‑, becoming *klei‑ in centum languages.
Derivatives include decline, climax, climate, and ladder.
  1. Full-grade form *klei‑.
    1. Suffixed form *klei-n‑. decline, incline, recline, from Latin -clīnāre, to lean, bend.
    2. Suffixed form *klei-tro‑. clitellum, from Latin clītellae, packsaddle, from diminutive of *clītra, litter.
    3. Suffixed form *klei-wo‑. acclivity, declivity, proclivity, from Latin clīvus, a slope.
    4. Suffixed form *klei-tor‑, "incline, hill." clitoris, from Greek diminutive kleitoris, clitoris.
  2. Zero grade form *kli‑.
    1. lid, from Old English hlid, cover, from Germanic *hlid‑, "that which bends over," cover.
    2. Suffixed form *kli-n‑. lean1, from Old English hlinian and hleonian, to lean, from Germanic *hlinēn.
    3. Suffixed form *kli-ent‑. client, from Latin cliēns, dependent, follower.
    4. Suffixed form *kli-to‑ in compound *aus-klit-ā‑ (see ous-).
    5. Suffixed form *kli-n-yo‑. -clinal, cline, -cline, -clinic, clino-, clisis, klismos; aclinic line, anaclisis, clinandrium, enclitic, matriclinous, patroclinous, pericline, proclitic, from Greek klīnein, to lean.
    6. Suffixed form *kli-mn̥. climate, from Greek klima, sloping surface of the earth.
    7. Lengthened zero-grade form *klī‑, with lengthening of obscure origin.
      1. Suffixed form *klī-n-ā‑. clinic; diclinous, monoclinous, triclinium, from Greek klīnē, bed;
      2. suffixed form *klī-m‑. climax, from Greek klīmax, ladder.
  3. Suffixed o-grade form *kloi-tr‑. ladder, from Old English hlǣd(d)er, ladder, from Germanic *hlaidri‑.
[Pokorny k̑lei‑ 600.]
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