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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/klott
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From earlier *kluttaz[1], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up; amass; clench”). Compare related *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz.
Noun
*klott m
- clod, lump, ball
Declension
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *klott | |
Genitive | *klottas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *klott | *klottō, *klottōs |
Accusative | *klott | *klottā |
Genitive | *klottas | *klottō |
Dative | *klottē | *klottum |
Instrumental | *klottu | *klottum |
Descendants
- Old English: clot, clott; *clod (in clod-hamer)
- Middle English: clot, clotte; clod
- English: clot; clod
- Scots: clod
- Middle English: clot, clotte; clod
- Old High German: kloz, chloz
- Middle High German: kloz, klotz
- Alemannic German: Chlotz, Glotz
- German: Klotz
- → Polish: kloc
- → Lithuanian: klucus
- Luxembourgish: Klatz
- Yiddish: קלאָץ (klots)
- → Middle Low German: klotz
- Plautdietsch: Klotz
- Middle High German: kloz, klotz
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003) , “*kluttaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 217