Etymograph

English

accloy

Accloy comes from Medieval Latin inclavare ‘to nail onto’, from Proto-Italic *klāwos ‘capable of closing something’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w-o-s.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kleh₂w-o-sreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*klāwos‘capable of closing something’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEclavus‘nail’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEclāvō
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500inclavare‘to nail onto’
  6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400encloyer
  7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500acloyen
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1590accloy

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kleh₂w-o-sreconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*klāwos‘capable of closing something’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEclavus‘nail’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEclāvō
  5. Medieval Latinc. 600–1500inclavare‘to nail onto’
  6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400encloyer
  7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500acloyen
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1590accloy

Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: “At the well head the purest streames arise: /…”

Linked words

through Latin clavus ‘nail’

clove, 8 more

through Medieval Latin inclavare ‘to nail onto’

enclave, 1 more

Today it means

verb To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w-o-s / accloy

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