claie

From Old French cloie, from Early Medieval Latin clēta.

• IPA^(key): /klɛ/

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claie f (plural claies)

1. wicker rack; trellis
2. hurdle (temporary fence, hedge)

• “claie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “claie”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page cliath

Borrowed from Bulgarian кладня (kladnja), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *klasti.

claie f (plural clăi)

1. haystack

   Synonym: căpiță

2. heap, pile
3. a bunch, mass, multitude, throng, crowd

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