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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German Zoll.
Pronunciation
Noun
clo n
- duty, tariff, customs duty (on export and import)
Declension
Declension of clo (hard neuter reducible)
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- clo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- clo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- clo in Internetová jazyková příručka
Vietnamese
Etymology
From French chlore, from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós).
Pronunciation
Noun
clo
- chlorine
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *klọw, from Proto-Celtic *klāwos, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, crook, peg”) (whence Latin clāvis).
Pronunciation
Noun
clo m (plural cloeon or cloeau)
- lock, bolt
- impediment, difficulty
- (prosody) consonance or correspondence of consonants in cynghanedd; often figurative
- lock, brake; mechanism that explodes charge in gun
- canal lock
- cluster, bunch
- (rugby) lock
- conclusion
Derived terms
- ar glo (“locked”)
- clo adlam (“spring lock”)
- clo araith (“peroration”)
- clo bach (“appliance to keep the wheel of a vehicle from turning on a steep slope”, literally “little lock”)
- clo clap, clo clec, clo clwt, clo cramp, clo dibyn, clo llyffant, clo march (“padlock”)
- clo clicied (“clicket-lock, latch-lock”)
- clo cont (“chastity belt, girdle”)
- clo cyngan (“correspondence of two consonants or groups of consonants in cynghanedd; conclusion, close”)
- clo cywydd (“envoy, concluding couplet”)
- clo dryll (“lock of a gun”)
- clo egwyd (“padlock, fetterlock”)
- clo rheswm (“conclusion”)
- clo Sbaen (“Spanish padlock, chastity belt, girdle”)
- clo tân (“firelock”)
- clo trafod (“closure”)
- clofan (“enclave”)
- clo(’r) chwedl
- cyfnod clo (“lockdown”)
- tan glo ac allwydd (“under lock and key”)
- tan glo (“locked, locked up, under lock and key”)
- ynghlo, yng nghlo (“locked, locked up”)
Related terms
- cloi (“to lock, shut or bind fast, clinch; to conclude”)
Mutation
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “clo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies