English
clomp
Clomp may come from English clump ‘walk heavily and clumsily’.
- English1500–presentclump‘walk heavily and clumsily’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1847clomp
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- English1500–presentclump‘walk heavily and clumsily’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1847clomp
Earliest quotation: 1847, Acton Bell, Agnes Grey: A Novel: “[…] so having smoothed my hair as well as…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- ‘clamp, mass’
through Proto-Germanic *klumpô ‘lump, clump, mass’
Today it means
noun The sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English clump / clomp