The story
- Middle Low German · borrowed fromklunden“to rumble, make noise, swallow loudly, gurgle, speak in a gurgling manner”
- English todayclunt
Origin obscure. Likely from Middle Low German klunden (“to rumble, make noise, swallow loudly, gurgle, speak in a gurgling manner”). Compare also Scots clunk (“to walk heavily”), where the shift from -t to -k is a regular occurrence.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.