cleve

Meaning

Noun

Origin

From Middle English cleve, from Old English clēofa, clēafa, from Proto-Germanic *klebô, from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ-. Cognate with Old Norse klefi (whence Icelandic klefi). Related to cleave.

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