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cloc

cloc

Catalan

Verb

cloc

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of cloure

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowing from Late Latin clocca (bell), from Proto-Indo-European *kleg- (to cry, sound).

Noun

cloc m

  1. bell
  2. (by extension) clock

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • cloc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Rudolf Thurneysen, A Grammar of Old Irish (Dublin, 1946), p. 87

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of gleoc

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

cloc m (plural clociau)

  1. clock

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cloc gloc nghloc chloc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.