The story
- Middle Dutch · derived fromcloppen“to make a clopping sound”
- Dutch · derived fromkloppen“to hit, knock”
- English todayclop
Perhaps from German or Dutch kloppen (“to hit, knock”), from Middle Dutch cloppen (“to make a clopping sound”), of onomatopoeic origin. See also clap.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.