clammy

• 形容詞比較級clammier、形容詞最上級clammiest、名詞clamminess、副詞clammily）。

PIE*gleiから、粘着性の、ネバネバした、語源的には粘土、接着剤と同じ。

clammy

clammy: [14] Etymologically, clammy means ‘sticky as if smeared with clay’. It comes from the now obsolete verb clam ‘smear, stick’. This goes back to Old English cl?man, a word of ancient ancestry: its prehistoric Germanic source was *klaimjan, a verb derived from *klaimaz ‘clay’; this was formed from the base *klai-, which is also the ultimate source of English clay and can be traced back to the Indo-European base *gloi-, *glei-, *gli-, from which English gets glue and gluten.
=> clay, glue

clammy (adj.)

"soft and sticky," late 14c., probably from Middle English clam "viscous, sticky, muddy" (mid-14c.), from Old English cl?m "mud, sticky clay," from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz "clay" (cognates: Flemish klammig, Low German klamig "sticky, damp," Old English cl?man "to smear, plaster;" cognates: clay). With -y (2). Related: Clammily; clamminess.

1. Think of the clammy hands you get when you visit the dentist！

歯医者に行ったときのベタベタした手を考えて！

2.My shirt was clammy with sweat.

私のシャツは汗びっしょりです。

3.Daybreak found us on a cold， clammy ship.

夜明けに冷たい船にいることに気づきました。

4.His skin felt cold and clammy .

彼の肌は冷たくてじめじめしている。

5.My shirt stuck to the clammy sweat on my back.

シャツが私の汗ばむ背中に貼ってあった。