klokke
Danish
/klɔkə/
noun
Definitions
- bell a percussive instrument
- bell something shaped like the instrument, i.e. as an inverted
- bell an instrument giving a signal, e.g. a l
- time, hour, o'clock the hours and minuts
- (rare) watch
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse klokka derived from Middle Low German klocke derived from Latin clocca derived from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (bell) derived from Proto-Indo-European *klēg-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*klēg-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- clocca Latin
- cloche French
- *klek- Proto-Indo-European
- *klēg- Proto-Indo-European
- klokke Norwegian Bokmål
- klokke Norwegian Nynorsk
- clucge Old English
- clog Irish
- clogaire Irish
- clogra Irish
- clogás Irish
- klokka Old Norse
- dør Danish
- dørklokke Danish
- klokkeren Danish
- klokketårn Danish
- ren Danish
- tårn Danish
- cloche Old French
- klukka Icelandic
- choca Galician
- chocallo Galician
- cloch Welsh
- clychau Welsh
- glocca Old High German
- klocca Old High German
- cloc Old Irish
- clocc Old Irish
- klokka Faroese
- choca Old Portuguese
- *klokkos Proto-Celtic
- *klokkos Proto-Celtic
- *klokkos- Proto-Celtic
- klocke Middle Low German
- klockæ Old Swedish
- klokke Old Frisian
- clôche Bourguignon
- *clocca Gaulish
- clocca Gaulish
- cloque ONF.
- cloke Picard
- klákka Scanian