Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist. · To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout. · To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. · To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
From Middle English clout (“piece of cloth”), from Old English clūt (“piece of cloth, patch; metal plate”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The influence sense originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread. Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German klōz (“lump”), whence German Kloß (“clump”), and dialectal Russian глуда (gluda). See also cleat.
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- Root classification mention*gel-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentioncloutenm
- Inherited-form mentionclūtang · piece of cloth, patch; metal plate
- Inherited-form mention*klūtgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*klūtazgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*gelewdosine-pro
- Derivation mention*gel-ine-pro · to ball up, amass
- Cognate mentionklútrnon · kerchief
- Cognate mentionklutsv
- Cognate mentionkludda
- Cognate mentionklōzgmh · lump
- Cognate mentionKloßde · clump
- Cognate mentionглудаru
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