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[English Etymology] *klei- "to lean" 🛌

*klei- "to lean"🛌




Old French climat "region, part of the earth" 

    Latin clima (genitive climatis) "region; slope of the earth"
          Greek klima "region, an inclination, slope, slope of the earth from equator to pole"


French clinique (17c.), 

    Latin clinicus "physician that visits patients in their beds"
              Greek klinike (techne) "(practice) at the sickbed" 
                             klinikos "of the bed"
                                 kline "bed, couch, that on which one lies"
Eng lean

       Old English hlinian "to recline, lie down, rest; bend or incline" 
                Proto-Germanic *hlinen

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