English
clefting
From cleft + -ing.
Formed from cleft + -ing
Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- ‘to split’
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Proto-Germanic *kluftiz ‘splitting’
Proto-West Germanic *klufti
Old English ġeclyft ‘split, cleft’
Middle English clift ‘a cleft’
English cleft
Today it means
noun The formation of a cleft lip or cleft palate.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / clefting