cluck
English
/klʌk/
noun
Definitions
- The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.
- Any sound similar to this.
- A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English clokken inherited from Old English cloccian (make a noise, cluck) inherited from Proto-Germanic *klukkwōną (make a sound, cluck).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*klukkwōną
Gloss
make a sound, cluck
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- clucker English
- clucketh English
- clucky English
- Glucke German
- gackern German
- glucken German
- inklokken Dutch, Flemish
- klokhen Dutch, Flemish
- klokken Dutch, Flemish
- overklokken Dutch, Flemish
- gloussement French
- glousser French
- *klukkwōną Proto-Germanic
- cloccian Old English
- clokken Middle English
- klekja Old Norse
- klekja Icelandic
- clocke Middle Dutch
- klukar Ido