Clay
English
Etymology
From a (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English occupational name for a clay worker, or a habitational name, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English clǣġ (“clay”).
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Proper noun
Clay (plural Clays)
- A surname originating as an occupation
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1968 Patrick White, Clay, in The Burnt Ones, Penguin Books, page 114:
- When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.
- 1968 Patrick White, Clay, in The Burnt Ones, Penguin Books, page 114:
- A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.
- A town, the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
- Ellipsis of Clay County.
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