clatter

The story

1. Old English · inherited from*clatrian
2. Middle English · inherited fromclatren“to make a rattling sound”
3. English todayclatter

From Middle English clatren (“to make a rattling sound”), from Old English *clatrian (attested as the Late Old English gerund clatrung), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Dutch klateren, kletteren. The noun, derived from the verb, is first attested in the 14ᵗʰ century.