cloc

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈklɔk]

cloc

1. first-person singular present indicative of cloure

From Old Irish cloc, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”).

• IPA^(key): /kloɡ/

cloc m

1. bell
2. (by extension) clock

• Irish: clog
• Manx: clag
• Scottish Gaelic: clag

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• clocc

From Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”), probably imitative.

• IPA^(key): /kloɡ/

cloc m

1. bell
2. (by extension) clock

• Middle Irish: cloc
  • Irish: clog
  • Manx: clag
  • Scottish Gaelic: clag
• → Medieval Latin: clocca
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: ciòca
    • Ligurian: cioca
    • Lombard: ciòca
    • Piedmontese: ciòca
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Bourguignon: cloiche
    • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: cloque
    • Franco-Provençal: clloche ; cllocha, hllocha, c'hocha, tllocha (Valdôtain)
    • Old French: cloche
      • Middle French: cloche
        • French: cloche
          • → English: cloche
          • → Esperanto: kloŝo
          • → Italian: cloche
          • → Polish: klosz
    • Old Northern French: cloque
      • French: cloque
      • → Middle English: cloke
        • English: cloak
    • Norman: clioche
    • Picard: cloque
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *klokkā (see there for further descendants)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, page 87; reprinted 2017

cloc m (genitive singular cloca, plural clocan or clocaichean)

1. alternative form of gleoc

Borrowed from Middle English clok, clokke (“bell, clock”). Doublet of cloch.

• IPA^(key): /klɔk/

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cloc m (plural clociau)

1. clock