clufu

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Old English

Gārleaces clufe

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *klubu, from Proto-Germanic *klubō, from the root of *kleubaną.

Pronunciation

Noun

clufu f (nominative plural clufe)

  1. clove (of garlic)
    • c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume 2, page 350
      gārleaces .iii. clufe
      three cloves of garlic

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

singular plural
nominative clufu clufa, clufe
accusative clufe clufa, clufe
genitive clufe clufa
dative clufe clufum

Descendants

  • Middle English: clove, clof, clowe
    • English: clove
    • Scots: clow

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