Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes. · An individual ringing component of such a set. · A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device. · The sound of such an instrument or device.
To make the sound of a chime. · To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. · To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. · To agree; to correspond.
From Middle English chymbe, chyme, probably from Old Northern French chimbe (“cymbal”), a back-formation from chimble, cimble, from Latin cymbalum; perhaps reinforced by a misinterpretation of a Middle English *chymbele (from Old English ċimbala, ċimbal (“cymbal”)) as chymbe belle.
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