The story
- Dutch · derived fromklomp“clump, mass, wooden shoe”
- English todayclomp
Probably onomatopoeic or a variant of clump (“walk heavily and clumsily”), itself also onomatopoeic or perhaps from the notion of walking in clumps, from Dutch klomp (“clump, mass, wooden shoe”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.