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mizinamo
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And in Cornish, klywes, klewes, clewes, klowes, clowes, clêwes, clôwes depending on the orthography you use.
March 16, 2016
And, in Irish, ear is 'cluas', which looks a lot more similar to the Brthyonic words for to hear.
March 16, 2016
Wonder if its any relation to the old term "clouting somebody about the ear"..
July 29, 2016
The OED thinks not:
"[From] Old English clūt (in the sense ‘a patch or metal plate’); related to Dutch kluit ‘lump, clod’, also to cleat and clot. The shift of sense to ‘heavy blow’, which dates from late Middle English, is difficult to explain; possibly the change occurred first in the verb (from ‘put a patch on’ to ‘hit hard’)."
May 1, 2017
