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klons

Pronunciation: [klūōns]

“klons” is a Latvian word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. barn floor, earthen floor, threshing floor (dense, smooth surface, typically consisting of compacted clay or earth; floor made of compacted clay, earth, cement, bricks)
  2. lower surface inside a bread oven
  3. clone (a living organism that originated from a single vegetative cell of another organism)

Etymology

From the same stem as the verb klāt (“to cover”) (q.v.); note that the iterative form klāstīt has an archaic variant klostīt, whence klons with o. Cognates include Lithuanian klúonas (“barn; threshing floor”).

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