clay
要点粘土
意味
- 粘土;泥土
- (聖書で,人間の肉体が造られているとされる)土
例文
Now, just let the clay slide between your fingers.
そして粘土を指の間で滑らせるの。
Clay is the essential ingredient in making pottery.
泥は陶器を作るのに必要な材料です。
He hardened clay by putting it into a fire.
彼は粘土を火に入れて固めた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.