clocke

English

Noun

clocke (plural clockes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of clock

Anagrams

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

  1. bell
  2. 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

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

  1. Alternative form of clokke
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