Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo measure the duration of. · To measure the speed of. · To hit (someone) heavily. · To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *klokkosder.? Early Medieval Latin cloccader. Old Northern French cloquebor. Old Dutch *klokka Middle Dutch clockebor. Middle English clokke English clock First use appears c. 1370. From Middle English clokke, clok, cloke (“clock”), from Middle Dutch clocke (“bell, clock”), from Old Dutch *klokka, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell, clock, cloak”), probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch (“bell”), Old Irish cloc (“bell, clock”)), either onomatopoeic or from Proto-Indo-European *klek- (“to laugh, cackle”) (compare Proto-Germanic *hlahjaną (“to laugh”)). Cognate with Old English clucge (“bell”), Saterland Frisian Klokke (“bell, clock”), Dutch klok (“clock, bell”), Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke (“bell”), Danish and Norwegian klokke (“clock, bell”), Faroese klokka (“clock, bell”), Icelandic klukka (“clock, bell”), Swedish klocka (“clock, bell”), Asturian llueca (“cowbell”), Galician and Portuguese choca (“cowbell”), Doublet of cloak and cloche. "Seed head of a dandelion" sense from a children's game in which one supposedly tells the time by counting the number of puffs taken to blow away all the seeds, each puff representing one hour of the day.
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- Inherited-form mentionclokkeenm
- Derivation mentionclockedum
- Derivation mention*klokkoscel-pro
- Cognate mentionclochcy
- Cognate mentionclocsga
- Derivation mention*klek-ine-pro
- Cognate mention*hlahjanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionclucgeang
- Cognate mentionKlokkestq
- Cognate mentionkloknl
- Cognate mentionKlocknds
- Cognate mentionGlockede
- Cognate mentionklokkeno
- Cognate mentionklokkafo
- Cognate mentionklukkais
- Cognate mentionklockasv
- Cognate mentionlluecaast
- Cognate mentionchocapt
- Doublet mentioncloaken
- Doublet mentionclocheen
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"To measure the duration of.",
"To measure the speed of.",
"To hit (someone) heavily.",
"To notice; to take notice of (someone or something)."
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