Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cloam

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cloam
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

Uncountable

adj

Made of earthenware.

verb

To make cloam.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

verb

To gutter (as a candle).

British usage; Intransitive verb

Etymology

From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleym-, from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: clam, clām, *klaim, *klaimaz, *gleym-

Usage

Inflected Forms

cloams (plural) clome (alternative) clomb (alternative) more cloam (comparative) most cloam (superlative) cloams (present, singular) cloaming (participle, present) cloamed (participle, past) cloamed (past)

Derived Forms

cloamen cloamer

Phrases

cloam oven

Questions

What does cloam mean?: Clay.
Where does cloam come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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