English
clubbed
Clubbed comes from Middle English clubbyd ‘rounded, bumped’, from clubbe ‘a club or baton’, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klumpô ‘clasp’.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*klumpô‘clasp’reconstructed
- Old Norsec. 800–1350klubba
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500clubbe‘a club or baton’
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500clubbyd‘rounded, bumped’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1529clubbed
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*klumpô‘clasp’reconstructed
- Old Norsec. 800–1350klubba
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500clubbe‘a club or baton’
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500clubbyd‘rounded, bumped’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1529clubbed
Earliest quotation: a. 1529, John Skelton: “Her legges that ye myght se; But they were…”
Formed from club + -ed
Linked words
through Proto-Germanic *klumpô ‘clasp’
Today it means
verb Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *klumpô / clubbed