Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. · To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. · To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration. · To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk. · Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve. · Chatter; prattle. · The tongue.
From Middle English clacken, clakken, claken, from Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”), from Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”). Cognate with Scots clake, claik (“to utter cries", also "to bedaub, sully with a sticky substance”), Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”), Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”), Norwegian klakke (“to clack, strike, knock”), Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
This page abbreviates 1 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "clacken"
},
"expansion": "Middle English clacken"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "*clacian",
"4": "",
"5": "to slap, clap, clack"
},
"expansion": "Old English *clacian (“to slap, clap, clack”)"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*klakōną",
"4": "",
"5": "to clap, chirp"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *klakōną (“to clap, chirp”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "clake"
},
"expansion": "Scots clake"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "klakken",
"3": "",
"4": "to clack, crack"
},
"expansion": "Dutch klakken (“to clack, crack”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "klakken",
"3": "",
"4": "to slap on, daub"
},
"expansion": "Low German klakken (“to slap on, daub”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "klaka",
"3": "",
"4": "to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic klaka (“to twitter, chatter, wrangle, dispute”)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"clacken",
"clacken#Middle_English"
],
[
"clakken",
"clakken#Middle_English"
],
[
"claken",
"claken#Middle_English"
],
[
"*clacian",
"Reconstruction:Old English/clacian"
],
[
"*klakōną",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/klakōną"
],
[
"clake",
"clake#Scots"
],
[
"claik",
"claik#Scots"
],
[
"klakken",
"klakken#Dutch"
],
[
"klakken",
"klakken#Low_German"
],
[
"klakke",
"klakke#Old_Norse"
],
[
"klaka",
"klaka#Icelandic"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.",
"To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.",
"To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.",
"To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive",
"UK"
],
"recordId": "3a89cf2febb04af07fbf1715ef32e75f781f371d7f5fe27062826ea12eb2e214",
"rawRecordSha256": "4c38396cd59794b0f1b0e43f9acc140484446407096a54900d063c277537273f",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 557654
},
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.",
"Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.",
"Chatter; prattle.",
"The tongue."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"recordId": "74758efeb178633915f85c255f737ec49959bf963cf507015a488b8bc1c1a058",
"rawRecordSha256": "2a021322a19302ae63120ee0cabeb02c9387c2f70a11f0d4c25f93b25f2ddc04",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 557653
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 1,
"glosses": 0
}
}