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発音

• IPA: /ɡleɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

語源 1

1920s, from Ukrainian ґлей (glej, “clayey soil”), from Proto-Slavic *glьjь, from Proto-Indo-European *gl̥h₁y-ó-s, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-. Cognate of clay.

別の表記

• glei

名詞

gley (plural gleys)

1. (soil science) A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.

同意語

• gleysol, gleisol

派生語

動詞

gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleying, simple past and past participle gleyed)

1. (soil science) To be converted into this kind of soil.

参照

• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “глей”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

語源 2

From Scots.

動詞

gley (third-person singular simple present gleys, present participle gleying, simple past and past participle gleyed)

1. (Scotland) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
   • 1800, Banffshire:

     “Muckle lang gleyed Sanny Fite,” shouted the stranger

関連する語

• agley

アナグラム

• gyle