clocke
English
Noun
clocke (plural clockes)
- Obsolete spelling of clock
Anagrams
- Elcock, cockle
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *klokka, from Old Northern French cloque (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog), from Proto-Indo-European *klēg-, *klōg- (onomatopoeia).
Noun
clocke f
- bell
- something bell-shaped
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: klok, klokke
- Afrikaans: klok
- Berbice Creole Dutch: klok
- Jersey Dutch: klök
- Negerhollands: klok, klock
- → Papiamentu: klòk, klok
- → West Frisian: klok
- Limburgish: klók
- → Middle English: clokke, clok, cloke, clocke
- English: clock
- Scots: clock
Further reading
- “clocke”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “clocke (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English
Noun
clocke
- Alternative form of clokke