Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A lump of something, especially earth or clay. · The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. · A stupid person, a dolt, a clodpate, a clodhopper. · Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
To pelt with clods. · To throw violently; to hurl. · To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to kloot (“clod”). Alternatively, Middle English clod may derive from Old English *clod (found in Old English clodhamer (“a kind of thrush”) and Clodhangra (a placename)), from Proto-West Germanic *kloddō (“lump, clod”), from *gel- (“to ball up, become lumpy”), related to West Frisian klodde (“clod, lump”), Dutch klodde (“lump, blob”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionclodenm
- Inherited-form mentionclotang
- Inherited-form mention*klottgmw-pro · mass, ball, clump
- Inherited-form mention*clodang
- Cognate mentionclodhamerang · a kind of thrush
- Inherited-form mention*kloddōgmw-pro · lump, clod
- Cognate mentionkloddefy · clod, lump
- Cognate mentionkloddenl · lump, blob
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