English

aclinal

From a- + clinal.

Formed from a- + clinal

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti ‘to be leaning, sloped, bent’

Proto-Hellenic *klíňňō

Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω ‘to bend’

Ancient Greek κλίνη ‘bed’

Today it means

adj Having no dip; horizontal

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