English
club
Club comes from Middle English clubbe ‘a club or baton’, from Old Norse klubba, from Proto-Germanic *klumpô ‘clip’.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*klumpô‘clip’reconstructed
- Old Norsec. 800–1350klubba
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500clubbe‘a club or baton’
- Englishearliest quotation 1687club
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*klumpô‘clip’reconstructed
- Old Norsec. 800–1350klubba
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500clubbe‘a club or baton’
- Englishearliest quotation 1687club
Earliest quotation: 1687, John Dryden, (please specify the page number): “Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of…”
Linked words
through Proto-Germanic *klumpô ‘clip, clasp’
Today it means
noun A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *klumpô / club