Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to clay
Participle: clayed
Gerund: claying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | clay |
| you | clay |
| he;she;it | clays |
| we | clay |
| you | clay |
| they | clay |
Perfect
| I | have clayed |
| you | have clayed |
| he;she;it | has clayed |
| we | have clayed |
| you | have clayed |
| they | have clayed |
Past
| I | clayed |
| you | clayed |
| he;she;it | clayed |
| we | clayed |
| you | clayed |
| they | clayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had clayed |
| you | had clayed |
| he;she;it | had clayed |
| we | had clayed |
| you | had clayed |
| they | had clayed |
Future
| I | will clay |
| you | will clay |
| he;she;it | will clay |
| we | will clay |
| you | will clay |
| they | will clay |
Future Perfect
| I | will have clayed |
| you | will have clayed |
| he;she;it | will have clayed |
| we | will have clayed |
| you | will have clayed |
| they | will have clayed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | clay |
| you | clay |
| he;she;it | clay |
| we | clay |
| you | clay |
| they | clay |
Perfect
| I | have clayed |
| you | have clayed |
| he;she;it | have clayed |
| we | have clayed |
| you | have clayed |
| they | have clayed |
Imperfect
| I | clayed |
| you | clayed |
| he;she;it | clayed |
| we | clayed |
| you | clayed |
| they | clayed |
Pluperfect
| I | had clayed |
| you | had clayed |
| he;she;it | had clayed |
| we | had clayed |
| you | had clayed |
| they | had clayed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would clay |
| you | would clay |
| he;she;it | would clay |
| we | would clay |
| you | would clay |
| they | would clay |
Perfect
| I | would have clayed |
| you | would have clayed |
| he;she;it | would have clayed |
| we | would have clayed |
| you | would have clayed |
| they | would have clayed |
Imperative
| you | clay |
| we | Let's clay |
| you | clay |
Verbs conjugated like 'clay'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'clay'
clad,
clag,
clam,
clap,
clary,
claw,
claym,
cloy,
cly,
flay,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E.
clæg "stiff, sticky earth; clay," from W.Gmc.
*klaijaz, from PIE base
*glei "to stick together" (cf. Gk.
gloios "sticky matter," L.
glus, gluten, O.Slav.
glina "clay").
Clay pigeon is from 1888.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
5. Proto-Indo-European *gloyHós
6. Proto-Germanic *klajjaz
7. Proto-West Germanic *klaij
8. Old English clǣġ
9. Middle English cley
10. English clay
11. From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- (“to glue, paste, stick together”). Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog. See: English '
glue'.
Sample Sentences
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1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
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They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
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[1809, Jonathan Williams, “On the Process of Claying Sugar”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 6:]
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The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them. [1985, Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835, page 200:]