The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*biklammjan
- Old English · inherited frombeclæmman
- Middle English · inherited from*beclammen
- English todaybeclam
From Middle English *beclammen, from Old English beclæmman, beclemman, from Proto-West Germanic *biklammjan, equivalent to be- + clam. Cognate with West Frisian beklamme, beklamje, Dutch beklemmen, German Low German beklemmen, German beklemmen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.