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English
Noun
clocke (plural clockes)
- 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
- bell
- something bell-shaped
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
Middle English
Noun
clocke
- Alternative form of clokke