clé

• clef (less common)

From Middle French clef, from Old French clef, from Latin clāvem, accusative singular clāvis, from Proto-Italic *klāwis, of ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin. According to Bescherelle, the spelling clé had replaced clef by 1845.

• IPA^(key): /kle/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: clef, clefs, clés

clé f (plural clés)

1. key (device for unlocking)
2. key (essential attribute)

   La différence est la clé de l'existence.

   Difference is the key to existence.

3. wrench, spanner

• clavier
• enclaver

• serrure f
• verrou m

• “clé” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• clí (Galway)

From Old Irish clé, from Proto-Celtic *klēyā, substantivization of the adjective *klēyos (“left(hand)”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic clì and Welsh cledd.

• IPA^(key): /clʲeː/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /clʲiː/ (corresponding to the form clí)

clé f (genitive singular clé)

1. left (side opposite right)

• Archaic dative singular: clí

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “clé”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• “clé” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "clé" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

• clay
• glé’

clé

1. water

• comcom

• Anthony P. Grant, Karankawa Linguitic Materials, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 19, number 2 (1994)