Etymology

clockweight

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Today it means: Any of the weights that regulate the mechanism of a clock. Full definition →

English weight ← Middle English clokke ← Middle Dutch clocke
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The story

  1. Proto-Celtic*klokkosder.?
  2. Early Medieval Latinclocca
  3. Old Northern Frenchcloque
  4. Old Dutch*klokka
  5. Middle Dutchclocke
  6. Middle Englishclokke
  7. Englishclock
  8. Englishweight
  9. English todayclockweight

From clock + weight.

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