clefting
English
noun
Definitions
- (medicine) The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
- (linguistics) The formation of a cleft sentence.
Etymology
Suffix from English cleft.
Origin
English
cleft
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cleft English
- cleft chin English
- clefted English
- cleftgraft English
- noncleft English
- pseudocleft English
- pseudoclefting English
- uncleft English
- watercleft English
- clift Middle English