Etymology

seacliff

S1E1A1C3L1I1F4F4

Today it means: A cliff that abuts the sea, formed by sea erosion. Full definition →

Middle English sæclif ← Old English sǣclif
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromsǣclif“cliff by the sea, seacliff”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromsæclif
  3. English todayseacliff

From Middle English sæclif (also in plural see clyues), from Old English sǣclif (“cliff by the sea, seacliff”), equivalent to sea + cliff.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.