Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks. · Any sound similar to this. · A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse. · A setting hen.
To make low clicking sounds (refers to hens). · To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound. · To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. · To suffer withdrawal from heroin.
From Middle English clokken, clocken, from Old English cloccian (“to cluck, make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *klukkwōn, from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (“to make a sound, cluck”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Scots clok, clock (“to cluck”), Dutch klokken (“to cluck”), Low German klucken (“to cluck”), German glucken (“to cluck”), Danish klukke (“to cluck”), Swedish klucka (“to cluck”), Icelandic klökkva (“to sob, whine, cluck”).
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- Inherited-form mentionclokkenenm
- Inherited-form mentioncloccianang
- Inherited-form mention*klukkwōngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*klukkwōnągem-pro · to make a sound, cluck
- Cognate mentioncloksco
- Cognate mentionklokkennl
- Cognate mentionkluckennds
- Cognate mentiongluckende
- Cognate mentionklukkeda
- Cognate mentionkluckasv
- Cognate mentionklökkvais
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