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

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

• 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) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →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